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Also, why does it get upvotes so quickly?

• next_xibalba 10mo ago
  My pet conspiracy theory is there is a fair amount of coordinated manipulation to get political posts on the HN front page. Fortunately, they are often quickly flagged to the abyss.
  • GOD_Over_Djinn 10mo ago
    That’s not a conspiracy theory. Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.
    • next_xibalba 10mo ago
      I think many like to think HN is excepted.
    • flag_fagger 10mo ago
      > Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube. We call that “the voting populace”