[bediger4000]

I don't think it's a shill army. I think it's just a pointed lesson in the modalities of argument that show up on Hacker News.

[gus_massa]

I also think it's not a shill army. Many recent discussions have more opinions than technical facts, so the quality of the discussion decrease. It's a cycle, the quality of the discussion usually improve after a few month. (There is a nice graph in an old comment...)

To the OP: Anyway, if you see something shady you can send an email to the mods [e-mail] , so they can check the patterns of the discussion.