Hacker News Reader

I've gotten the impression (and more so recently) that astroturfing is a problem on reddit. Not so much on Hacker News.

What do you mean by astroturfing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

I cannot think of a meaning your question might have that is not answered by the intro of this article. (sorry if I got that wrong)

It is a huge problem here. I think the vast majority of people here on HN can recount a time when a post of theirs was downvoted into oblivion for being nothing worse than critical of a big corporation.

Downvotes are one thing, but I don't think of that as astroturfing. On reddit, I much more frequently question the content of actual comments. Especially when it comes to posts regarding high budget entertainment, like for movie trailers and games and the like. There's just too many blandly positive short comments... I don't get the impression that happens on HN nearly as much.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com