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75 points in 20 minutes? How are there that many people browsing /newest?
by daenz 8y ago
75 points in 20 minutes? How are there that many people browsing /newest?
- minimaxir 8y agoHigh point velocity for an agreeable issue isn't too surprising. It's when there's a high point velocity for a marketing piece/bad thought piece that's suspicious.
- dragonwriter 8y agoPeople browsing /comments will also come to (and potentially vote on) new, active threads.
- NVRM 8y agoHN is completly flawn by marketing actions. This isn't new but it's now very bad...
- dang 8y agoIf you have evidence of people successfully gaming HN with 'marketing actions', I'd like to see it at hn@ycombinator.com. We work hard to stop that, at least in its abusive forms such as ring-voting. Abuse exists, of course, but people also imagine it onto everything they see on HN that they happen to dislike. Then they come to the comment threads to post unsubstantiated claims about it. That doesn't help.
- sincerely 8y agoWhy would someone pay money to promote a complaint about reddit's redesign ?
- dang 8y agoThree votes came from /newest and the rest from the front page. The post obviously struck a nerve.
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- dredmorbius 8y agoThe response certainly surprised me.