Hacker News Reader

Comment by stronglikedan | Hacker News Reader

The cool thing about HN is that, by its very nature, any post that gets voted to the front page is warranted.

Given that the mods can alter the rank of a post artificially, and do so probably often, this statement holds no weight.

It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.

Adding weight to a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Removing weight from a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753

Please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.

You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.

On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.

True, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?

Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users.

Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.

Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.

Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098

Reply on news.ycombinator.com