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0 pointsoblio3y ago0 comments

Yeah, that kind of died the day this was published:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/corporate-market...

Gitlab said out loud what we were all thinking: companies have automation in place to follow big communities such as HN and notify their developer evangelists and marketing teams and have them reply and create "buzz". Aka, shills :-)

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viraptor3y ago

There's a difference between people paid to post positive things about a project whenever it's mentioned and people paid to communicate about a project. One is shilling, the other is... communicating about a project. There's a difference and saying they're the same thing is quite cynic.

hwers3y ago

They should probably be transparent about it in latter case though (which they aren’t always)

cookie_monsta3y ago

Do you think that people should be banned from commenting on things they work on? Seems counterproductive to me.

oblioOP3y ago

No. But they should be transparent about it. Which they have an incentive to not be, since at this point we're talking about real money.

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