I'm glad you approve. No, wait, I don't give a shit.
HN has too much tolerance for this 1000% totally bogus intellectually insulting rhetorical tactic. It demeans everyone.
The people writing these idiotic "you must be a shill for {Microsoft,Mozilla,NSA}" comments think they're clever, but what they're really saying is "not only do I not understand what the Fundamental Attribution Error is, but I can't even comprehend the idea of someone disagreeing with me or even presenting a fact or idea that challenges my preconceptions; no, it's much more likely that this is a bad faith comment than that I don't know everything there is to know about every topic".
And then other people cheer them on!
There is no online community anywhere on the Internet less capable of spotting a shill than Hacker News. Any competent shill could immediately see how to game the site.
Heh. I wasn't offering my approval so don't go jumping the gun there and assuming things.
I was just offering a perspective on effective methods of communication. Whether it means anything to anyone other than myself, it has no effect on my continued meager offerings in the future.
I recall you checking me on a similar point once upon a time.
Edit: for what it's worth, I agree with your observation that things aren't as bad as, say, they were with the Pinkertons breaking strikes up.