Y'all See the Astroturfing, Right?

7•justcuriousss•2h ago

Long time HN lurker here, please forgive the throwaway.

Not self promotion or VC tomfoolery, I am talking about public discourse management. Opinion shaping, multiparty, and on some topics, guaranteed like clockwork.

Just wondering, because... damn. This is different.

Comments

PaulHoule•2h ago

Remember Triplebyte? Or the early posts about MCP?

gwbas1c•2h ago

Pretty much any comment that runs contrary to the current hype narrative gets downvoted: 10 years ago, if you pointed out that cryptocurrency is a scam, you get downvoted. Today, if you point out that AI isn't going to live up to the hype, you get downvoted.

That being said, I think you need to have concrete examples of opinion shaping for this thread to get any constructive discussion.

justcuriousss•2h ago

Thank you, and I agree. I did not want to cite examples, thinking they would overwhelm the thread with the specific problem in question.

I don’t mean groupthink or the opposing groupthink that comes in response, though. I believe I can tell the difference, and I believe this is new and systemic.

If you don’t perceive the same thing, I may simply be wrong or projecting. It’s why I asked.

gwbas1c•1h ago

If it's going on, it's probably not in the threads that I read.

Hacker News has no ads: It has to support someone's agenda, otherwise it would be a charity.

salawat•1h ago

For the uninitiated.

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Take it how you will.

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