I was going to take issue with your comment, but I noticed the two other older commenters ('MITpmt, 'lauvidi) were created on the same day, and one of them had posted only one other comment, on an item submitted by the same original poster.
That is pretty strange, huh?
I mean.. maybe they're colleagues, and he posted the link to his post in like a Discord, or a Slack. Why be so cynical?
Why be cynical? Because the web is frought with fake views and click/comment farms and "growth hacking" and "native advertising".
I posted this on a small Facebook group with some of my friends. Those people commenting were some of my best friends.