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Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreiten
by grhmc 11y ago
Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue
This is very gross behavior, dominikgro / Refind.
EDIT:
I'm also skeptical about these accounts:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=firmasaga1 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=firmasaga1
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andreasbrenner https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andreasbrenner
- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=geo_O https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=geo_O
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- dominikgro 11y agoBefore HN, Refind had about 900 users (half of them very active). We just announced by email and in the product that we're on HN today.
- mkuhn 11y agoAlso, as a Refind user, I recognize quite a few of these people. Definitely here because of the announcement and not fake profiles.
- andreasbrenner 11y agoYou don't need to be sceptical about my account :) It has been registered with Hackernews for >1 year. Many YC alumni can confirm me being real and being not Dominik (founder of refind). I know him personally, I have been a happy user of refind and when I learned there was a chance to push it on hackernews I did.
- dang 11y agoIt breaks HN's rules to solicit votes (see the FAQ), which promoting a submission often has the effect of. This often gets the submission, accounts, and/or site banned or penalized, so please avoid this. HN's software, moderators, and (as you've seen here) community are all sensitive to it.
- oxplot 11y agoI've seen this happen once or twice before. I think HN should have some simple algo to detect these and adjust weighting accordingly.
- chmars 11y agoI did not know that new users could upvote on HN. Interesting!