they aren't bots

they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...

Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb

I'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...

It's no different.

if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that

"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...

I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.

I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.

I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that

So the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?