Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this.
I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.
I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.
That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian
And these two have been waiting years to comment but were finally moved to for first time
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7