Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
by mintplant on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:41PM
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I feel like I've read the exact same HN comment, comparing Facebook to the NSA, five times in the past couple days. Here it's barely tangentially related to the topic at hand. Is there some sort of mini PR push going on to mitigate FB's recent reputational damage?
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Please don't post comments insinuating astroturfing or shillage unless you have some more substantive reason for it—in which case you should email us at [email protected] so we can investigate. All this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It's natural for things to seem this way, but that's because there's enough data on HN to produce seeming patterns of all kinds. Overwhelmingly, it's just users being users. Unfortunately the internet habit of leaping to "shill!" or "PR!" as an explanation for $annoying_view does more damage, because it's more widespread. That's why we ask people to inhibit the reflex.
I've posted a ton about this if anyone wants more background: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
You're right, on reflection this was unnecessarily silly/snarky of me to post here. Thanks for the course correction.
Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
by dredmorbius on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:46PM
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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
by ribosometronome on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:37PM
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"Hey guys, remember how Facebook had to go in front of congress? Zuck did a crappy job there!" is not exactly a great, confidence instilling PR push.