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The HN protocol to deal with this is downvote silently. Complaining about why and what is on HN is also in the FAQ as a no no.

If there was any serious preparation for a many months long campaign then why Kharg island is not occupied already?

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The HN protocol is also to flag articles that are off-topic.
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Where in the FAQ?
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> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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