If you feel like there's astroturfing abuse going on on HN, we'd appreciate links at [email protected] so we can investigate. It's hard to run across a comment like this in a large thread and have any idea what you're specifically referring to.

It's also a breach of HN's civility rule to insinuate astroturfing by commenters you disagree with—that trope is far more often (probably 100x more often) a below-the-belt rhetorical move than it is an accurate assessment of others' behavior. Though the latter does happen.