Absolutely certainly true.

You’re naive if think there is an intelligence organization in the world who can log into the internet who doesn’t scrape analyze and opinionate over the intellectual bastion which is HN.

baseless and generally-applicable accusations of deepstate activity are worthless as a comment.

that does not mean i dont think governments, corps, etc. aren't scraping data or even attempting to shape narrative. but i dont want to read general, non-actionable, vague comments about deepstate actors while browsing hn.

comments like that are not interesting, they don't pique curiosity, they don't promote good conversation, and there's nothing to learn from them.

they are a net negative on hn.