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Comment by greatpostman | Hacker News Reader

Nearly every negative google comment is downvoted

Among three most downvoted comments, one comment is very (and likely intentionally) misleading and the rests are uninteresting, repetitive sarcasm which deteriorates the signal to noise ratio. This might be very surprising conclusion to some of ordinary HN audiences, but could there be any realistic possibilities of those comment deserving some downvotes?

HN is known to be anti google/big tech. So it’s odd to see the change

>HN is known to be anti google/big tech

Anti-Google / Big Tech is relatively new on HN. Especially the Anti-Google Part.

HN is well known to be Anti Facebook though. 2nd Place being Oracle.

I’ve been here since like 2008, it’s not new

And I have been here since 2008 ( this is my 2nd account ), I cant remember anyone was Anti Google when they released Chrome and were the media darling while I was the only few crying for Firefox.

The only hatred that existed since the birth of HN was Microsoft and Facebook. ( And Oracle )

Pardon my skepticism but your account is 7mo old?

This always happens when there's a popular post about big tech on HN. Google is a big company with lots of employees and lots of investors and HN is no longer a tiny corner of the internet. Just ignore the astroturfing and look for the signal in the noise.

If you poll consumers, Google is one of the most liked companies [0]. They don’t need to astroturf to get favorable comments.

Also, accusations of astroturfing are against the HN site guidelines. If you think comments are wrong, tell us why they are wrong, don’t attack the authors.

[0] https://morningconsult.com/most-loved-brands-2020/

I've had this debate with mods already. I believe there is astroturfing but I'm not going to waste my time pointing out every instance, especially since I actually did this a long time ago and it's almost impossible to prove. You're welcome to believe the entirety of the comments narrative is genuine. I disagree.

Like I said in my original comment, look for the signal in the noise. If you believe there is no noise then your search is already over.

on HN this is usually the other way around

at least as far i can remember

Same, I’m surprised

The earnings threads always invert the usual "google sucks" narrative because when it comes to money google is objectively raking it in. People can form opinions about the company's product strategy or engineering capabilities or ethics or social implications but the earnings threads are usually "wow, they sure do make a lot of money."

It is just different topics.

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