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Then people could game the votes more easily by submitting in groups, rather then voting in groups.
by dzlobin 16y ago
Then people could game the votes more easily by submitting in groups, rather then voting in groups.
- 3pt14159 16y agoThen you build a system that detects voting rings and other irregularities like too many votes from a certain geographic location without that geographic location being mentioned in the title (protects Hacker News Nights)
- sinamdar 16y agoThis is already happening. Some bloggers like ryanwaggoner are openly asking for upvotes by submissions at the end of the blog posts. So, unfortunately, this is something that will always remain broken.
- zach 16y agoI think that an active HN member "asking for the sale" at the end of a post is clever and responsible marketing. More so than many blogs' gratuitously inflammatory titles or even having widgets to submit every post to Reddit or Digg or every other site under the sun.