Indeed. I'm a bit surprised that this company is 'savvy' enough to post to and 'engage' with Hacker News, and yet not smart enough to realize that being so blatantly obvious in posting fake comments is a surefire way to attract the disapproval of that same community.
Or am I underestimating how mainstream HN has become?
(of course there's still the possibility that these comments are actually genuine, however unlikely. In that case my apologies for making the wrong assumptions.)
Well - it sounds like all these comments are from actual users... but TBH - the positive comments are great, but we’re much more interested in the constructive (and blunt) feedback HN is known for… any thoughts?
They may be from actual users of your program, but votes and comments here need mostly to be by actual users of HN.
Votes and comments for promotional reasons are against HN's rules and tend to get accounts and sites banned. We want people to participate because they find a story intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend have something to promote. It's totally fine to post your own stuff, but after that, the HN community needs to drive.
Being offended is understandable if you are a real user and just really excited about this project.
But then the underlying problem is that all these comments seem fake, which clearly indicates they don't offer any value and only hurt the product. So I'd say if you really love riddle.com, either just upvote the post, or add something meaningful to the conversation :-).
