That's a serious violation of the Hacker News guidelines, which ask you to assume good faith and not to post insinuations about astroturfing or other manipulations.
People need to be free to come here and express their views regardless of who they work for, and not have their integrity called into question for doing so. HN will be much poorer if some users are allowed to hound out other users, however unintentionally. Everything I've observed on HN has shown me that the temptation to assume that the other party in a disagreement is being disingenuous is a million times greater than it should be. We all have to work against that consciously in ourselves.
People need to be free to come here and express their views regardless of who they work for, and not have their integrity called into question for doing so. HN will be much poorer if some users are allowed to hound out other users, however unintentionally. Everything I've observed on HN has shown me that the temptation to assume that the other party in a disagreement is being disingenuous is a million times greater than it should be. We all have to work against that consciously in ourselves.
If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, take the spirit of this site to heart, and post in accordance with it from now on, we'd be grateful.
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