Your comment seems to be similar to others flooding every online discussion area, so I guess it's a common opinion.
But you really think anyone has influence because of past donations?
There's a famous quote: "what have you done for me lately?".
But you really think anyone has influence because of past donations?
There's a famous quote: "what have you done for me lately?".
I assume you have had plenty of experience in life where people praise you for one thing, but reward you for another.
Slight tangent:
It seems like there have been a lot of mentions of SBF on HN.
Alex Mashinsky strikes me as an even less sympathetic character, who made some of the all time poorest aging comments prior to his downfall, like "either we're lying or the banks are lying", and yet I couldn't find a single thread with his name that had any comments on HN.
There were quite a few Celsius threads, but "Mashinsky" doesn't seem to have attracted interest.
I don't make up or subscribe to conspiracy theories, so I have no hypothesis to explain this, but it has long seemed inexplicable to me how some things get 700 comments here and others get zero without a difference that seems salient to me.