Please don't post this sort of insinuation of astroturfing. There's a site guideline specifically against it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The reason is that people are far too quick to leap to this interpretation, and since we have next to no data about each other from HN posts, pretty much every divisive topic gets drowned in such insinuations if allowed to.

Lots more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...