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I'm not against the effort but in the real world the game will always be rigged because of "voting rings" that contain actual people. I work with 4 other peopl
by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not against the effort but in the real world the game will always be rigged because of "voting rings" that contain actual people.
I work with 4 other people who are on HN and we added it up a few weeks back and found we represent over 7,000 karma points. So we could easily get something on the front page if we colluded to do so. We specifically make an effort not to but I'm sure many (http://bit.ly/aUKFwc http://bit.ly/aUKFwc) aren't as honest.
To me that's no different than having bots do it for you.
- bradbeattie 17y agoThe problem is poorly phrased. As you point out, it has nothing to do with bots or humans. There's still benefit to inhibiting rings of users (real or otherwise) that frequently vote together. Maybe some kind of diminishing returns?
- jolie 17y agoThat's a good point, Perhaps votes really ought to count for less if you vote for a certain user's submissions all the time. Solves the problem for both bots and humans... and androids... and any other Internet-using life forms. 'Cause really, I know the human power users are 50 times more traffic-gaming than the "spammers" or "bots" this problem addresses.