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Comment by Karrot_Kream | Hacker News Reader

If coordinating is cheap enough, you might as well do it whether anyone is listening or not.

I’ve been on HN for longer than most of the accounts on this thread. The issue is that HN doesn’t take kindly to controversial takes (see Michael O’Church fiasco some decade back). So burner accounts are almost a necessity if you want to say anything where someone’s poor feelings might get upset. Called anti semitic? Shit, better let the ADL know then.

I don’t think anyone truly gives a shit about HN enough to have a concentrated attack effort. But Israel, China, Russia, Ukraine and Palestine are all hot topics. Fuck em. Nuke them all from the orbit.

Yeah I'm an old account too, and this is my second account (my original from 2008 ish.) Tend to agree that nobody cares enough about HN for a concentrated attack, but I also could be wrong. It's quite cheap these days to spin up burners and small accounts to coordinate. This became trivial from below-frontier models from last year, let alone today's models.

That being said, there's some real changes happening on this site. I'm not sure if it's just the audience getting old, angry, and jaded or something else entirely. I talk a bit about this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225117

This would be an amazing blog post to read, quite frankly. I think I’m only getting the tail end from the stats alone. Thank you for doing this. Looking forward to it.

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