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I don’t have any links. That’s not the sort of thing I keep track of. That said, I’ve spoken with a batch of folks who’ve explained their tricks for getting th
by karjaluoto 11y ago
I don’t have any links. That’s not the sort of thing I keep track of.
That said, I’ve spoken with a batch of folks who’ve explained their tricks for getting their stories bumped up.
Just from a quick search, though, it doesn’t seem like such discussion is hidden: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
- dang 11y agoI don't think that article discussed voting rings? Also, not all the info there is accurate, and things have changed a lot since then. It's pretty important to HN that "tricks for getting stories bumped up" end up costing more than they benefit. Since I'm one of the people who've worked on this, the engineer in me is eager to see counterexamples, so everybody please email us if you think you see one.
- karjaluoto 11y agoI just skimmed the post I linked to—didn’t read it in depth. (That said, I did bookmark it, to read more thoroughly when I have a moment.) Most of the things I’ve heard have been in personal discussions, so I haven’t seen the actual links. I’m curious: do you see a lot of folks running workarounds/tricks to get to the homepage? Is it something that’s difficult to stop?
- dang 11y agoYes, we see a lot of that and yes it's difficult to stop, but we've put a lot of work into the software and it currently has the upper hand. It's a bit of an arms race though.
- karjaluoto 11y agoI can appreciate that. Seems like a tough thing to keep on top of.