News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads. Parent comment

Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by FussyZeus on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:30PM (#21777274)
That may be true, but this is also the sole comment from this account, made to defend the ad policies of a company known to take veeeeeery large liberties with the data of it's userbase, both to enhance features and to sell ad targeting.

Like if it's HN's policy to not call things astroturfing, fine, I'll accept that. But if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck, and posts in it's own defense for no apparent reason like a duck...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by colejohnson66 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:41PM (#21777379)
It doesn’t matter. One is still claiming astroturfing with nothing but circumstantial evidence. If you have actual evidence that this account is a troll, post it.

Regarding the “new account” argument: HN encourages throwaways. Maybe OP didn’t want to lose karma on their main account. Maybe they don’t want people knowing who he is? It doesn’t matter.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by pavel_lishin on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:36PM (#21777729)
> One is still claiming astroturfing with nothing but circumstantial evidence.

And adgineer is claiming various things without any evidence at all.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by colejohnson66 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:13PM (#21777936)
I never said we should believe him. Just that we shouldn’t claim astroturfing without evidence. We shouldn’t necessarily believe OP without evidence either.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by zorpner on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:38PM (#21778105)
Realistically, on a social site without additional evidence, the default assumption on the modern web should be that a given account is being compensated for what they're posting. An account's history might allow us to adjust that prior.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used ... by teachrdan on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:18PM (#21778289)
Fun fact: Circumstantial evidence is admissible in court!

http://www2.nau.edu/~bio372-c/class/evolution/cirevi.htm

[ Parent | on HN ]