Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN?

Re:Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN? by 1_player on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:52AM (#28885855)

Paid by whom? There are companies and employees on HN posting, commenting and promoting their business and services, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Is someone paying to get upvoted? Almost certainly, but I doubt it's worth a lot here where the sorting algorithm is much more opaque than Reddit. On Reddit getting to the top is just a numbers game.

Also, even though there's far too much political posts on HN, they're the minority and I can't see a reason for some secret government agency to pay staff to change our views about the political world. Reddit is much more politicised, and it'd be naive not to assume every major government has a propaganda team of Reddit posters.

(I'm using Reddit as another example of popularity-contest forum like HN is)

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Re:Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN? by ampgt on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:23AM (#28886179)

The political posts on here are amazing though. You get well thought out arguments from both sides. The only downside is the down voting/silencing of people’s opinions when the masses at HN don’t agree. The down vote feature should be disabled, let the responses/post chain do the judging.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN? by 1_player on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:11AM (#28886783)

> The political posts on here are amazing though

I haven't said they're bad. I just personally don't enjoy politics with my hacker news.

Agreed on the downvotes, I could do without them.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there paid commenters on HN? by arvindamirtaa on Saturday October 16, 2021 @02:33AM (#28885975)

Considering how reddit filters down to twitter and instagram and other local social networks, followed by local tabloids and so on, it's entirely reasonable to assume that.

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