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Disagree. There's nothing wrong with looking at somebody else's previous comments, nor anything wrong with pointing out to the reader that there might (rightly or wrongly) be something of interest there. Comments are public, and a user's comment history is public too.

I agree. It's just dumb to bring in irrelevant comments and even dumber to call someone a kremlin troll for defending Facebook.

I would say it's not shady, it's just kinda dumb because it's irrelevant

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Ad hominem attacks do not change the fact that your original point turned out to be false

This breaks both the HN guideline against personal attacks ('be civil') and the one against insinuations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence. Someone having an opposing opinion is not evidence. Please don't do this again.

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

The rest of the internet may be losing its mind; that doesn't mean we need to. Commenters here can do better than this.