This is the kind of article that I believe would benefit from authorship identification/stylometry. I would like to know how much of the conversation occurring in this comment section is real, and how much of it is part of the recently revealed work that Microsoft has being doing in swaying opinion on hacker news.
Wouldn't that be an interesting tool for press releases like this?
"In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
Thanks! Hard to read much into that call other than Microsoft folks 1) Read Hacker News and 2) Are targeting it as an audience for which they would like to be more popular in.
You had made it sound like some sort of coordinated astroturfing operation.
"In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
Wouldn't that be an interesting tool for press releases like this?