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As for Russian propaganda, that isn't remotely representative of the forum. You may be falling prey to the bias that causes negative data points to stand out more (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), as well as the bias that causes internet users to feel that other commenters are foreign agents, astroturfers, spies, shills, bots, etc. On the latter, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... If anyone wants an in-depth explanation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725 is one of many.
No, it was not. Partisan would be asking if they were going to switch to a specific different party. I asked if they re-thought their affiliation.
> As for Russian propaganda, that isn't remotely representative of the forum.
I never claimed it was, just that it has increased the past two weeks without much moderation.
> the bias that causes internet users to feel that other commenters are foreign agents, astroturfers, spies, shills, bots, etc.
Another thing I never claimed.
All of these assumptions sound like they may be an example of the Illusion of Asymmetric Insight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight). Is that how this works?