Tell HN: HN is not immune to manipulation

12 points

4 years ago

It started innocently. There was (is) a submission from phys.org about birds and windmills which caught my attention. Ironically, it was the odd article which didn't provide links to the actual research or paper it mentioned which caught my eye.

Then in the comments, I saw a strange post from an HN reader (who was also the submitter) which merely pasted an intro paragraph from the phys.org page. The comment and quote added nothing other than a visible "1 comment" to the post.

Looking at the submissions from this user, I saw dozens of submissions each day for the last several days. Many had a particular slant related to a particular ongoing war.

Moderator dang is one person. Is there any way we can keep HN from becoming drowned in garbage?

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