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I was planning at some vague point in the future to make bots for Techcrunch, PG, PB and xkcd just to take away that way to game karma. I think it'd be a net po
by aston 19y ago
I was planning at some vague point in the future to make bots for Techcrunch, PG, PB and xkcd just to take away that way to game karma. I think it'd be a net positive for the community, personally.
- bkrausz 19y agoThe problem is we don't want to flood HN with stuff like this...someone should look at the HN/Posts % (number of entries posted to HN/total number of entries)...I'd say if it's around a constant 2/3 it's worth doing. If I have the time I'll try to investigate this at some point...pg would be in a much better providing this info. http://searchyc.com/top/domains http://searchyc.com/top/domains shows that TechCrunch may be worth doing this for...
- aston 19y ago100% of PG articles make it here, lots of TC's make it here (although many don't hit the front page), probably half of the xkcd's do, and PB's generally make it here eventually. Also, I omitted Matt Maroon before, but his articles generally get posted, too, even when they're little comments and not actually essays.
- bkrausz 19y agoSearch of SearchYC based on title on 30 TechCrunch articles from March 27-29 found 7/30 articles = ~25% PG's articles get a huge amount of karma regardless, that should probably be botted but may never make it in time (I don't know how quickly the RSS feed is generated).