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I think there may be growing pressure to game Hacker News. I've been seeing (anecdotally) increasing odd activity in early morning hours (EST) linked with some
by thesagan 10y ago
I think there may be growing pressure to game Hacker News. I've been seeing (anecdotally) increasing odd activity in early morning hours (EST) linked with some funny account activity, etc.
Seems most potential spam gets caught and flagged pretty quick, though. It's interesting browsing HN with the "showdead" option activated every now and then.
- etblg 10y agoI've been more confused about the recent trend in just posting wikipedia articles on random subjects. No one in the comments seems to ever have a problem with it either.
- GuiA 10y agoWhat's confusing about it? They're usually articles about fairly niche, but HN relevant, ideas/subjects.
- johnchristopher 10y agoI sometimes can spot why: it happens that there is a 'big' thread going on on HN and sometimes a Wikipedia article about one of the aspect of the thread or an argument in it is posted. I have also seen two articles on the front page that seemed to be part of the same discussion. Eg: an article about Tokyo gentrification would trigger a discussion about waste management in big cities and then Wikipedia articles about Japanese sewers and some aspects of Japanese culture would be posted.
- pessimizer 10y agoI've been here at least 5 years, and that's always been done. Often resulted in some great comment pages.