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Comment by Jedi72 | Hacker News Reader

I made a post on the Iota subreddit which supported the MIT team, removed 30 minutes later. It honestly terrifies me how easy it is to manipulate discourse online - there are many other posts calling the MIT team frauds and the general tone is that Iota were saints defending against corrupt evil cryptography researchers.

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Seems like there is no worse platform to discuss the merits and weaknesses of cryptocurrencies somewhat objectively than those specific subreddits. They are so full of greed and ideology, it's absurd. It's quite hard to look through the hype, so the academics are my best bet when trying to understand things.

back when something awful and metafilter were comparatively big, much of the impetus for the paywalls they put on registrations was to structurally prevent the possibility of this sort of thing. worked fine, although those two communities themselves are pretty moribund.

it would all be solved forever and anon with a paywall. 5 mao men, botheads, shilling, you would raise the cost to them by orders of magnitude (stealing other people's credit card numbers cost real money)

The problem isn’t “bots”. It’s the moderators of these forums. You’ll always find a core group of people willing to believe almost any scam, but putting them on a forum where critical discussion is banned by the moderators is where things go wrong.

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