I agree. My only source was from personal experience. I saw the ads, myself, and remember when it changed. I think that the article may be a bit of "damage control."

Gave it a +1.

> I saw the ads, myself, and remember when it changed.

Fair enough, I guess their public policy position doesn't necessarily inform how they conduct advertising.

So because of an advertisement you might have seen 40 years ago you made up a major funding source out of whole cloth?

No. I also read about the funding reveal. I also mentioned that, but I guess it didn’t register.

Helpful breakdown, this clarifies the concept well.

Wonderful. A bot HN companion cube.

Thanks for "sharing."

I must be blind. How do you downvote? I've only ever seen an upvote.

You have to have a minimum amount of karma here to get a down vote button. I think it's 500.

Correct. And to add: it only applies to comments; non-moderators cannot downvote stories

You can flag, but a lone flag is worthless. Not sure how many it takes to nuke a story or comment.

For myself, I only downvote/flag stuff that I consider harmful to the community.

That does not include stories or comments with which I disagree. In fact, I frequently upvote comments posted, that attack my own positions, if they do so in a reasonable manner. Groupthink sucks, and I frequently change my mind, based on orthogonal feedback.