Comment by protocolture

>Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.

Yes.

Its not that its difficult. Its that its expensive and doesn't provide any obvious benefit to the person supposedly doing it.

But this anonymous guy, has given some kind of anonymous interview to the guy getting the balance of attention from his bots activities.

Its not unbelievable. But given the possible alternatives I feel that I absolutely cant buy in to the story as written.