Also, I see this is your first comment on HN, welcome!
Insinuations of astroturfing without evidence are explicitly against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Overwhelmingly (and I mean well over 99.9% of the time) people make guesses that are completely wrong, and it poisons discussion.
If you didn't mean it that way, I apologize.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Who moderates the moderators? ;)
Moderation is guesswork. Inevitably we guess wrong sometimes, and in such cases are happy to apologize and fix the mistakes. But not making any such guesses isn't an option, since then people could get away with anything as long as they phrased it ambiguously.
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