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I love that this article links to the HN discussion thread at the bottom of the article.
by mceoin 9y ago
I love that this article links to the HN discussion thread at the bottom of the article.
- Houshalter 9y agoWhich is a bad idea in general. I think HN uses some kind of vote ring detection scheme. And checks if the referrer to a link is from HN or another source before counting their votes.
- grzm 9y agoI've seen links like these on a variety of articles/blog posts. I hadn't considered it's possible abuse with voting rings: I've always thought of it a pointer to where discussion is held, kind of a proxy for self-hosted comments. I can see how it could be an issue, however.
- kbrosnan 9y agoGwern edits articles as new information arrives. The links were added after the initial article was written. Gwern rarely submits their own content. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gwern https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gwern