[News-Dog]

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, *bots*, brigading, foreign agents and the like.

It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data. : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[smcl]

I'm curious, a few of your comments are lists of $thing: $link - often without context or any explanation, so is there some form of automation going on here?

Additionally, while the tone of the original comment was a little cheeky, I think if they wanted to downvote and say (and I'm interpreting what they wanted to say from the tone, not making any accusations personally) "These are low-quality, low-effort comments that I think are bot-driven" they wouldn't be terribly unjustified in doing so.

[News-Dog]

No automation invoked, or involved, I add references where I feel they are needed.

If further commentary by me is redundant, then it is no doubt a moot point.