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For comment points dropping and rising, I am not positive on this but what I've heard is that we're sometimes witnessing fake accounts get banned off the site a
by KirinDave 9y ago
For comment points dropping and rising, I am not positive on this but what I've heard is that we're sometimes witnessing fake accounts get banned off the site and their votes being retracted.
I've had bug negative votes on posts suddenly pop back up almost instantly. In threads on this subject, it happens an awful lot. I suspect people are availing themselves of various vote purchasing schemes to amplify their points.
- thinkfurther 9y agoThat wasn't about points dropping and rising, it was about a story that would without flags be square on page one clearly being sunk with flags. It was in neighbourhood of stories with either much less points, or that were lots older. Once a month I think of making a scaper just to detect this, to filter out the interesting stories automatically, if you will. The ones that are clearly not spam or such, but still get dropped like a hot potato.
- KirinDave 9y agoWell I can't speak to other people's actions, only mine. When a story is small and it's submitter is of medium karma it doesn't take many flags. I have had many arguments with the mods over my years here and we still have our disagreements, but I don't see them nuke things often. I see vote and flag manipulations a lot.
- thinkfurther 9y agoOh, I absolutely didn't mean to imply that HN mods intervened manually. They're just not intervening to keep people from keeping others from having a discussion, either.