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That puts a horrible incentive on those who would do it just for the links. The best incentives are non monetary. Real people are motivated by them.
by ivankirigin 17y ago
That puts a horrible incentive on those who would do it just for the links.
The best incentives are non monetary. Real people are motivated by them.
- vaksel 17y agoNot really, the lowest # on the leaderboard right now is ~4.2K. To get that you'd need to spend like 6-7 months on HN submitting quality stuff or making quality posts(need those votes). Noone is going to do all that for a single link, they'd rather spend that time adding their site to a bunch of directories or writing articles to submit to content farms.
- ivankirigin 17y agoI think you underestimate both the capability for automation and the motivation of the spammers.
- jacquesm 17y agoThe motivation for the spammers would be the direct clickthrough from the new page that's what they're doing it for today, their accounts would never have a snowballs chance in hell to make it to the leaderboard. Votingrings with sockpuppets would be detected long before they would get even near that level, presumably long before they'd reach even 10% of what it takes to get on the leaderboard. There must be softer targets than the HN leaderboard.