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Re:American landlords derive more profit from renters in low... by eli_gottlieb on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:01AM (#19470714)
Funny how we have two fresh accounts posting in this discussion, one of which insists that the study authors must have an "agenda", and another of which gives an "aside" that exploitative slumlords "are almost all involved with (((close-knit religious groups)))".

Sounds like the ruling class is a bit agitated that we're noticing what's going on, and wants to misdirect our attention.

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Re:American landlords derive more profit from renters in low... by dang on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:39PM (#19477587)
On HN, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. In this case it led to a bad misunderstanding elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470818).

Also, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You've been breaking them, and we need you to fix that. One thing they ask you not to do is insinuate astroturfing without evidence, as you did in this comment here. Plenty of explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

More seriously, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. A certain amount of politics and ideology is unavoidable with many topics that appear on HN, but when this crosses into being the primary reason why someone uses the site, that user has left the realm of intellectual curiosity and shifted to the battlefield—exactly what we're trying to avoid HN turning into. For that reason, we ban accounts when they cross that line. More explanation on that if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

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Re:American landlords derive more profit from renters in low... by krapp on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:12AM (#19470764)
I mean, one or both of those accounts could be your own alts, as far as anyone knows.

I don't think the "ruling class" are so concerned about people "noticing what's going on" that they sent shills to create a couple of green accounts to post on Hacker News. That the rich exploit the poor is not exactly a shocking revelation to anyone.

Certainly, you're not helping keep things focused by implying shills and saboteurs are at work here.

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