I caught Aldi advertising with Reddits frugal board.
Young accounts, lots of Aldi Love.
That marketing company has gotten better.
I find it awful HN mods won't let this be discussed. Is HN manipulated? Why wouldn't it be?
The main constraint is that answering these questions thoroughly is time- and energy-intensive. Since our resources are limited, this quickly eats into the other things we need to do to keep HN up and make it better. So we have to be careful how we engage. That mostly means answering users who have substantive questions and good-faith concerns, and avoiding getting lost in the forests that the wilder kinds of insinuations lead to. The internet is a gigantic Rohrschach test that is all too ready to supply whatever people want to see.
A quarterly/half-year transparency report or audit post, say, discussed at the time of posting, perhaps.
What works is personal interaction with particular users.
Open outcry isn't the best Q&A / conversational model. It's HN's default.
The Scholastic Instruction model has merits: lectio, meditatio, quaestio, disputationes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism#Scholastic_instr...
It would be super helpful to also provide a 'lobbed' page. I didn't know about this practice, and I'm sure many other users don't know about this either. It's important in my opinion for the sake of transparency.