[okasaki]

Yes, many people enjoy making things up, and they are good at it, and it's hard to detect.

Reddit is particularly awful, but HN definitely isn't immune. The moderator's attitude to lying is generally very lame, eg here's someone admitting to habitually lying:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788

account still happily posting...

[ChildOfChaos]

This is a very interesting post, thanks for sharing, and even if most are not doing it deliberately as this person is it confirms the issue with such sites.

[jprete]

Thank you for pointing that out.