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It's fascinating looking at the history of submissions of this link: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Y%20Combinator:%20Bookmarklet&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type

• greenyoda 11y ago
  What you don't see in the history are the hundreds of submissions that have been killed by flagging. The most common scenario I've seen is that this link is submitted as the first submission from a newly-created account. My guess is that it's used by some kind of automated spamming software to test whether account creation was successful. This submission fits that pattern: newly-created user with no comments; this is their only submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=manojgajavelli https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=manojgajavelli