[etiennedi]

Thanks, appreciate your perspective. This is much more insightful than just "affiliated==botnet". I agree that this can be a huge positive and - at least for me - that was the motivation for wanting to be active in the comments; to see if there are any challenging questions, feedback, etc.

As a HN user, I often go straight to the comments and only look at the submission if there's an interesting discussion there. I can totally see how spammy-looking comments with an undisclosed affiliation can have the exact opposite effect.

(affiliated with Weaviate)

[nostrebored]

Nobody said affiliated equals botnet. You have accounts which go into discussions about Weaviate and write low quality comments that are essentially spam. They have no other real HN history.

Do you not think that the comments in here could’ve been generated by bots?

Stop it.