Sounds like a rough start to the day. Might I suggest an extra coffee. Works for me when I get to work and everything is on fire.
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That breaks several of the site guidelines and is also one hell of a goalpost move. Please don't.
Re:Tank Man
by birdyrooster on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:50PM
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When the topic of discussion is censorship and disinformation online (that includes HN), no one is pulling out astroturfing as rhetoric to shutdown a conversation, it is literally part of the conversation. A moderator coming in here to tamp down on our discussion of disinformation is ironic and self-defeating. This conversation was interesting until you showed up telling us to stop.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I'm trying to figure out what happened (I don't keep track of these things while I'm asleep), but having taken a quick look so far I can tell you for sure that the flags were from legit, longstanding, entirely boring HN users. (Edit: I did not mean to insult those HN users. I meant that if people saw the list of usernames, they'd find it boring because there would be nothing sinister in it.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html