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Please don't imply another member is a shill or plant or whatnot without solid evidence. It's uncivil and not conducive to constructive discussion. If you're actually concerned that this might be the case, please contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer.

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It may be uncivil, but we are really truely living in an age where a significant percentage of communications are forged by paid PR people. We should focus on actually thinking about this problem and dealing with it. I know that whitch hunts are bad, but this member didn't get out a pitch-fork and noose, they only said how they felt.

Indeed, communication is fraught with all manner of difficulties today. We have a lot of things that we may feel, and some, while we may believe are justified, are not constructive to express in certain contexts. Implications like this on HN are one such case.

That doesn't mean there's no recourse. The mods actively respond to concerns like this. As I suggested above, you can contact them and they'll look into it.

One can still argue with paid PR without resorting to ad hominem and boo lights...

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