I read the comment you linked. They seem to be eloquent and have good reason to dislike Facebook. Other commenters seem to agree with their views as well.
I’m not sure what your intention is here, but this makes it feel like you’re taking a stance FOR Facebook/Meta and trying to discount numair’s feelings about FB which seem valid.
This reads like a bot/paid commenter trying to de-legitimize real and honest discussion about the topic at hand.
I just noticed his username because I’ve seen it so often in these threads about Facebook. And it seems dishonest for him to level accusations while carefully wording his comment to sound like an insider.
I posted the link for context. FWIW I agree with him on most points, and I’ve just sent traffic to his 10 year old post disparaging Facebook, so if I’m a paid shill I’m pretty bad at it.
Yeah, I do agree the “insider” take did come across as unnecessary to make their points and does seem odd.
Also, a HN mod requested I didn’t make the comments I did about you. Seems like a valid rule and my comment didn’t really add to the discussion, so sorry about that as well.
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I’m not sure what your intention is here, but this makes it feel like you’re taking a stance FOR Facebook/Meta and trying to discount numair’s feelings about FB which seem valid.
This reads like a bot/paid commenter trying to de-legitimize real and honest discussion about the topic at hand.