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YC has a team of people watching HN in addition to programatic solutions. Turn on "Show Dead" in your account and look at /new and you'll see plenty of people
by benologist 10y ago
YC has a team of people watching HN in addition to programatic solutions. Turn on "Show Dead" in your account and look at /new and you'll see plenty of people and companies trying to exploit HN.
A site was on the front page last week selling upvotes on HN:
https://upvotes.club/ https://upvotes.club/
+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676362
I suspect-without-enough-proof that that is the third 'exploit HN repeatedly' business plan I've seen this year, I made a thread yesterday to surface ideas that might be working -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718417
- mamurphy 10y agoI tried searching for the thread you referenced and couldn't find it, but found this one from today on the low 2nd page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13724990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13724990). It's good that people are becoming aware of the reddit manipulation; if Reddit is being manipulated and HN uses such a similar design, I have to imagine people are trying to manipulate HN.
- benologist 10y agoHN has ~a decade of history of manipulation in the past and more traffic than ever so naturally it will be targeted more too. If you see anything you think is manipulated this is the person to contact - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang He's got all the data to confirm suspicions and can be reached via hn@ycombinator.com, doesn't matter how many times you're wrong either lol.