Is anyone else kind of skeeved out by how an army of googlers descends on every HN post to defend google and their comments are always immediately upvoted to the top?
They certainly are efficient at controlling the conversation.
They certainly are efficient at controlling the conversation.
Fwiw, I like HN, precisely because the community rewards healthy dialogue. My good comments are upvoted and the shitty ones are down voted. I worry about whether or not my comments are getting upvoted by lots of Googlers, but I sort of trust the HN moderators to have built in defenses against that in the voting ring detector. I also don't go asking anyone to upvote my comments or submissions, and I actively remind people of the same.
Besides that, 2 people does not an army make...
I don't have the negative impression you have obviously gotten from previous instances where this occurred, however. Perhaps it was less than honorable in those other instances.