I am not accountable to you. People liked it, they voted it. You do not like the comment and the tablet, hence are throwing blatant allegation of astroturfing. I am just a simple engineer trying to make a living from engineering surfaces. I come on HN because I like some tech, and have used it extensively. But wow you are just throwing allegation that I am being on payroll of either Nokia or MS, just vicious man. I do not need to tone down my language to appease you.
"This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards."
higher standards? Like you throwing accusations? Yeah, because you collectively represent HN. There are posters which post high quality content making it a good forum. But making yourself out as a torch-bearer of some sort while on the same time passing caustic remarks.
Pity that cooldeals and recoiledsnake don't even bother showing up these days. They had quite a few examples where articles that were favorable (or heck, even non-negative) to Microsoft consistently got flagged off the front page. There's a pretty strong anti-MS voting contingent on here, and they'd call it out every time it happened.
And for that they'd be accused of being, I kid you not, "Microsoft zealots"!
I remember that one of my first interaction on this site was with recoiledsnake in fact, where he pointed towards said anti-MS nature of this site. Today, I have been accused of being a shill 3 times. I totally feel how it must have been for those guys. I can totally accuse them of being apple or google PR people, without any credible evidence, it seems.
Just because you guys took a dump on the submit doesn't mean it deserved to be flagged. Seriously, I've never thought of HN as an immature reddit/slashdot-like place before today, and I've been on for much longer than you.
"This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards."
higher standards? Like you throwing accusations? Yeah, because you collectively represent HN. There are posters which post high quality content making it a good forum. But making yourself out as a torch-bearer of some sort while on the same time passing caustic remarks.