shilling

Still, accusing a fellow user of shilling is worse than accusing one of not having read an article.

Occam has no trouble accounting for most of what people call trolling, astroturfing, and shilling in controversial threads.

They're not shilling or astroturfing for this company and your assumption is a bit rude because it's so easy to check.

My mom has stories of jumping under the stalls if they didn't have the shilling, sixpence or whatever it was in the 60's.

Accusations of astroturfing and shilling without evidence are not allowed on Hacker News.

I'm certainly not shilling for MSoft, I'm doing all my work on Linux at this point.

In any case, it is unfortunate that a talented writer and researcher like Ezra Klein spends his talents shilling to support a political narrative.

One of the early specs for a cylinder/piston fit was that they should fit well enough that a shilling coin couldn't be pushed between them.

Accusations of shilling without evidence are not allowed on Hacker News.

The implication of shilling is out of line, and even if someone hasn't read any facts, posting a comment that is itself factless doesn't help.

> HN has become host to feminist shilling Perhaps people became more aware of the causes of feminism?

The shilling thing is its own circle of forum hell.

Just as rationally, I can declare that I'm not sure if you're "just shilling".

"feminist shilling" no, those aren't my legitimate opinions.

I guess you can say "avoid the larger subreddits" but there is a lot of content-based shilling too-- try posting anything about Israel or Russia in the context of a serious discussion and see what happens.

Shilling happens on this forum and it is never called out.