I mean from the perspective of someone that wants to know what the heck it is, the tweet is super vague. You can't blame people for wanting signal and not knowing enough about the space to discern it from noise.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
On the other hand, I think there is another article that got flagged without an explicit marker (though unrelated to this one) and even though I am not aware of how the moderation algorithms work, it’d be better off considering the user flags beyond a certain cutoff instead of downranking as it does now.
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> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
On the other hand, I think there is another article that got flagged without an explicit marker (though unrelated to this one) and even though I am not aware of how the moderation algorithms work, it’d be better off considering the user flags beyond a certain cutoff instead of downranking as it does now.