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0 pointsgioscarab5y ago0 comments

>It's almost as if "somebody" doesn't want projects like this one to succeed. Who would benefit if PJON and others like it didn't exist? Who would benefit if users instead had no other option but to pay a for-profit company for the hardware, software, and (of course!) the recurring monthly subscription fee instead of just doing it themselves? Hmm... (see how easy that is)?

jlgaddis, probably there could not have been a better way to describe the situation.

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detaro5y ago· 2 in thread

No, conspiracy theories are not a good way to describe the situation, and certainly don't help people believe you if they are doubting the legitimacy of a submission.

gioscarabOP5y ago

Many of you accused some users of our community to be fake and guilty of trying to influence the narrative, they did everything to prove their feedback was sincere, you gave them the benefit of the doubt.

Another user postulated the same could have happened in the opposite direction (trolls trying to discredit this submission), I told him he might have a point, you label me as a conspiracy theorist.

That's for sure fair.

detaro5y ago

> I told him he might have a point,

you didn't just do that. you edited your comment since I replied to it, so my comment now looks out of place.

(And there is some difference between "fake" and "just signed up to help promote a thing". And yes, suggesting that is also somewhat of a conspiracy theory, but one where we know that people asking their users to help upvote and promote a HN submissions happens regularly at least)

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