This breaks the HN guidelines against accusations of astroturfing or shilling without evidence. If there's one thing I've learned from looking at the data for countless hours, it's that internet users are far, far too quick to jump to this interpretation of what they perceive on the internet. The overwhelming majority of such accusations are purely bogus, and they poison the community, so we don't allow them here.

Actual evidence is a different story, of course, but then you should be emailing it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can take it seriously and investigate.

Lots more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... going back years now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> It's because DDG has been shilling on HN for quite a while.

We’re they caught shilling or something, or are you just upset about just normal promotion?