You broke the site guidelines with this, as well as being quite mistaken. (These are two legit users with no connection to each other, one of whom went a bit overboard with linking to a post.) Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? They include:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

In the future, if you are genuinely concerned about astroturfing, please follow the rules and email us. We will investigate and get back to you.

It's important for community here that HN users get out of the habit of cheaply smearing each other in response to something they don't like. It's much harder to respond to swipes like these than it is to post them in the first place, plus it's off topic.

There's lots of past explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Yeah, this is the second article I've run across with a non-sequitur link.