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Comment by abolishme | Hacker News Reader

I'm confused, aren't the SBoC blog posts all written by different people? Shouldn't we encourage new users to contribute? I checked it out, looks good to me.

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That's a little better. Though for a truly successful facade, you have to tailor the comments to the community. In the case of HN, I would suggest some canned multi-paragraph commentary about the subject of the article, but not too much at once, or else people will start to check profiles and notice that these are new accounts.

Logging in every once in a while and posting different stuff to build credibility would help.

Actually, I did post something yesterday. I didn't post anything today though. Just encouraging my colleagues. sheesh, don't shoot!

>posting different stuff

Key word there.

Guest posts on a blog during a week-long coding conference for an open-source encrypted communications project aren't different enough for you? Hard to imagine any one of these posts as something other than hacker news.

I'm not going to apologize, but I am going to end this comment thread (or at least my participation in it) here.

If it is indeed true that you are in fact multiple people and have independently submitted articles relating to your (actually pretty cool sounding) event, may I suggest that you coordinate in the future to keep the articles submitted to just a few at a time, and make your comments more substantial.

This would probably stop the accusations of you running an Astroturf campaign.

These are all posts written by different people participating in the same week-long event. That seems more forgiving than multiple company employees upvoting a story about the startup they work for to me.

Although this particular form of astroturf probably has better inside jokes.

You are obviously astroturfing. Push a bit more and your domain will end up on an auto-kill list.

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