[pessimizer]

If you farm a fleet of good accounts, you control the discourse. On HN, you could boost whatever you're trying to push, and downvote or flagkill whoever objects.

There are obvious benefits to controlling public discourse, right? Even if it's just to support some project you're working on.

[tardedmeme]

There are certain topics that seem to get instantly flag-killed unusually often. IPv6 is one.

[pessimizer]

I've been more disturbed by comments that were flagkilled just for being wrongthink, not because they were rude or not well argued. I've also seen a lot less of those flagkills over the last 6 months, which makes me feel like there were some fake accounts that got caught and culled.

[pocksuppet]

In the recent thread about life in a class war, a lot of comments in different places saying that if we don't fix this inequality problem, g-tines might come back, and every single one of them was flagkilled, no matter whether it framed as "we have to get out the g-tines" or "we have to fix this, otherwise psychopaths will get out the g-tines" or "thank god we've become civilized enough that we don't get the g-tines out"

[traderj0e]

I've seen a lot of ipv6 wars here without flagkilling happening