| > What kind of community is this if you can't question the motives of someone with a penchant for only replying to policital threads of a certain flavor? The kind of community where users are asked to assume good faith and not allowed to sling mud at each other. > If I didn't say anything about the guy's post history would you have checked? In this case I already had, because another user followed the guidelines and emailed us. > it's very clearly biased towards "China" news articles and the CCP party line Every account that posts on political issues is biased toward their point of view. Alas, many users, when confronted with an opposing bias, simply can't imagine that someone else sincerely disagrees with them. That's absurd, of course, but it's what underlies virtually every accusation of astroturfing/shilling/spying on political topics, including, I'm pretty sure, the one you're making here. > the most obvious AstroTurf shill account I've ever seen That is a good example of what I just described, as anyone who looks carefully at the account's public history will see. It's true that they were breaking the site guidelines by using HN primarily for political battle. But that's not evidence of astroturfing or shilling, it's evidence that they're fighting for the group they're loyal to. Such loyalty isn't hard to understand and needs no sinister explanation. It's as simple as that people come from different backgrounds. HN is a diverse international community, so many different backgrounds are represented here. As long as people follow the guidelines, they have a right to comment without being denounced or smeared. |