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.

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tardedmeme 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	traderj0e an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've seen a lot of ipv6 wars here without flagkilling happening
	▲	pessimizer 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.