perceived as interesting Well, they would actually need to be interesting. There have been users who do what amounts to "interesting article arbitrage" by aut

perceived as interesting Well, they would actually need to be interesting. There have been users who do what amounts to "interesting article arbitrage" by automatically submitting popular posts from other platforms. You can find the submission guidelines here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). The only one that really would apply to a bot, anymore than a normal person, is "Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.", which naive bots are likely to do.