HN users flagged your comment. Open-source or not is a red herring—the issue is illegitimate promotional tactics. (I've replaced "commercial" with "promotional" above to make this clearer.)
I'm surprised that you're not sure what I mean. From examples that users complaining about comment spam have emailed us, as well as the data I'm looking at, there is a longstanding pattern of abusing HN threads, including in outright deceptive ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324.
We have a contract with HN users: they're not allowed to accuse each other of astroturfing, and we promise to crack down on actual astroturfing when we see evidence of it. I'm seeing evidence.
I feel bad for taking this thread further off-topic, but it's important for users to see us upholding our end of that bargain. If you want to discuss this further, please email hn@ycombinator.com.
I'm surprised that you're not sure what I mean. From examples that users complaining about comment spam have emailed us, as well as the data I'm looking at, there is a longstanding pattern of abusing HN threads, including in outright deceptive ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324.
We have a contract with HN users: they're not allowed to accuse each other of astroturfing, and we promise to crack down on actual astroturfing when we see evidence of it. I'm seeing evidence.
I feel bad for taking this thread further off-topic, but it's important for users to see us upholding our end of that bargain. If you want to discuss this further, please email hn@ycombinator.com.