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There has to be a better way of stopping people from upvoting with alt accounts, or emailing a listserve asking for upvotes. One way would be to make sure the

There has to be a better way of stopping people from upvoting with alt accounts, or emailing a listserve asking for upvotes. One way would be to make sure the article generates good discussion. There are no comments on this article other than complaints that it's on the front page...

matthewwarren 9y ago
(Genuine Question) Is an article only considered good if it generates a large discussion? What about if people read it, found it thought provoking, but didn't have anything to add, to discuss?
- noelwelsh 9y ago
  I agree. I thought this was a great article and don't have much to add. Is there any evidence there is vote rigging in action here.
  - tenaciousDaniel 9y ago
    Same. I upvote all the time but rarely comment.
- sotojuan 9y ago
  I would prefer this over the "me too!" or "here is my irrelevant/off topic opinion" comments we get all the time. Not everything has to generate 100 comments of debate.
watty 9y ago
I thought it was a good read and gave me a little motivation to learn Haskell. I upvoted... is that a problem?
icc97 9y ago
There's a HN clone that ranks stories higher if they have less comments. More comments can just mean more controversial.
bad_user 9y ago
Given that I downvoted you and your comment did not turn gray, I have to assume that you've been up-voted by other people. Shooting down a blog article written by somebody from his heart, while upvoting yellow journalism — that's a common phenomenon here on HN — and I should know because this is my 9th year as an HN visitor and contributor. So such mean comments being upvoted, that doesn't look good, but on the other hand I can't say that I'm surprised. But to answer your particular comment ... HN actually does a pretty good job at detecting voting rings, along with upvotes triggered by mailing / social list. HN's detection is so aggressive in fact that it has many false positives, making it easy to bury stories you don't like ;-) And to blog authors out there — please write more, as I'm interested in genuine feelings and opinions, not by PR pieces written by corrupt media outlets.
- dang 9y ago
  > making it easy to bury stories you don't like I don't believe that's true and have reason to doubt it. But if you (or anyone) think you're seeing a case of this, please send a link to hn@ycombinator.com. We'll look into it.

matthewwarren 9y ago

(Genuine Question) Is an article only considered good if it generates a large discussion? What about if people read it, found it thought provoking, but didn't have anything to add, to discuss?

noelwelsh 9y ago
I agree. I thought this was a great article and don't have much to add. Is there any evidence there is vote rigging in action here.
- tenaciousDaniel 9y ago
  Same. I upvote all the time but rarely comment.
sotojuan 9y ago
I would prefer this over the "me too!" or "here is my irrelevant/off topic opinion" comments we get all the time. Not everything has to generate 100 comments of debate.

watty 9y ago

I thought it was a good read and gave me a little motivation to learn Haskell. I upvoted... is that a problem?

icc97 9y ago

There's a HN clone that ranks stories higher if they have less comments. More comments can just mean more controversial.

bad_user 9y ago

Given that I downvoted you and your comment did not turn gray, I have to assume that you've been up-voted by other people. Shooting down a blog article written by somebody from his heart, while upvoting yellow journalism — that's a common phenomenon here on HN — and I should know because this is my 9th year as an HN visitor and contributor. So such mean comments being upvoted, that doesn't look good, but on the other hand I can't say that I'm surprised. But to answer your particular comment ... HN actually does a pretty good job at detecting voting rings, along with upvotes triggered by mailing / social list. HN's detection is so aggressive in fact that it has many false positives, making it easy to bury stories you don't like ;-) And to blog authors out there — please write more, as I'm interested in genuine feelings and opinions, not by PR pieces written by corrupt media outlets.

dang 9y ago
> making it easy to bury stories you don't like I don't believe that's true and have reason to doubt it. But if you (or anyone) think you're seeing a case of this, please send a link to hn@ycombinator.com. We'll look into it.