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I think this is a bug: different users can keep voting down the author of a deleted post by visiting this URL for that post, where "username" is your name, even
by vlad 19y ago
I think this is a bug: different users can keep voting down the author of a deleted post by visiting this URL for that post, where "username" is your name, even though the post no longer appears.
http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?by=username&for=123462&dir=down http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?by=username&for=123462&...
I wonder if you can submit a link to YCombinator that simply loads 100 images when viewed, where the source of the image is that url, repeated for each of the members on the leaderboard. This would trigger an unintentional downvote for that post number if a user on the leaderboard visits it. Or maybe it could be a flash, ajax, or dynamic html script that constantly visits all the variations of the URL to account for 100 leaders matched up with posts of a certain user or all the post ids that are stories on the main page, for example.
Has anyone ever tested this or viewed the source code of this site?
- pg 19y agofixed