> I suspect this whole thread is made up by some Russian propaganda campaign.

This breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing without evidence. That's one of the internet poisons we're trying to do without here.

If you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.

Just because people disagree with you doesn't make them Russian propaganda. I'd love to hear what specifically makes you think /u/M0dusPwnens, a redditor of 6 years with thousands of largely non-political comments, is part of a propaganda campaign.

Spreading false accusations like that just undermines the validity of the very real issue of astroturfing and propaganda on sites like reddit.

If there actually was a propagandist in any of this, it would be steve_madere.

I was talking about the Reddit thread.