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@dang: Are influenced submissions investigated? This post was submitted by an account with no other submissions/comments except this. I suspect some mischief, b
by ktta 9y ago
@dang: Are influenced submissions investigated? This post was submitted by an account with no other submissions/comments except this. I suspect some mischief, but have no proof. Is is possible to look at the first few votes made for this post?
- lorenzhs 9y agoThe submission link has UTMs: https://www.getboost.io/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch https://www.getboost.io/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=so... This certainly smells.
- ktta 9y agoThat was something that tipped me off too. They're very specific.
- ztratar 9y agoIt was posted by our head of coaching. Suspicious? People self post all the time. We didn't run an upvote group, if that's your concern. HN algorithms are way too impressive.
- ktta 9y agoI guess we'll have to take your word for it. The account that posted was created about two months ago and this was the only submission which was the red flag. And this was the very first submission. Usually people have to repeatedly post to get the traction this post did because they get ignored sometimes.
- ztratar 9y agoSo what's weird is she actually posted last week too, but only she can see that submission in her submissions page. I can't see it -- I only see this one. Maybe that's why this one was allowed to go up? Not sure.