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OT this content was posted by a user who registered just 3 days ago. user: chablent created: 3 days ago karma: 524
by salimmadjd 8y ago
OT this content was posted by a user who registered just 3 days ago.
user: chablent
created: 3 days ago
karma: 524
- quickthrower2 8y agoHe has what looks like a bot running posting articles from major new sources about 1 per hour. A couple of those articles did well on HN and those got him the Karma. Nice Karma gaming.
- onetimemanytime 8y agohow is it possible to submit so many news stories, like 10 a day. The "posting too fast" didn't kick in?
- quickthrower2 8y agomaybe dang would know?
- shawn 8y agoNo need to guess. The code is public, and (judging by firsthand experience) they seem to be using a similar if not identical version: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/f01d3f9c661eed05511711a0f3388ca2a1d34fa2/news.arc#L1524-L1538 https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/f01d3f9c661eed055... New users can submit up to 2 stories every 3 hours. Bad users can submit up to 1 story every 3 hours. Looks like the bot is submitting at precisely that limit, but the timestamps aren't quite accurate enough. Some interested user could check the API to get the full times. I wish there were some way to contact the bot author. I want to see the code. It's no small feat to write an effective bot.
- bscphil 8y agoThat's quite a lot. For a site with a single feed that <50 articles surface on every day, one would think one story a day would be more than sufficient for new users.
- quickthrower2 8y agoI think zero stories for new users until 100 karma would be better. It is going to be almost impossible to build 100 karma through comments with automation. By allowing new users to submit stories, they can build up enough karma to downvote all through automation. 1 a day would just slow the process but not stop the spammers.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoSomeone might just have as super-cool story...that's different. But one every 48 hours unless that story or user received x karma. A story every few hours is ridiculous for any user, let alone new users.
- shawn 8y agoEh, I think I disagree. If a story is good for HN, it doesn't matter where it came from or who posted it, or whether it was a bot. That fact is true independently of any other consideration.
- isostatic 8y agoThrowaway accounts for example, I might not want my employer linking my user with a given story that I post
- onetimemanytime 8y agoso submit one....
- ShorsHammer 8y agoBrowse new, you'll see the same submitters over and over again. Create a system and people will game it. Wouldn't be surprised if they are sold or used ideologically to sway opinion. The internet once prospered and thrived on anonymity but feel that sentiment is shifting back towards integrity and longstanding handles. Perhaps there's a way to do this still pseudonymously with zero knowledge proofs, though likely will be yet another system capable of being gamed.
- raverbashing 8y agoYes, the amount of Russian shills here has increased visibly in recent times See the Assange articles for an example
- factsaresacred 8y agoPlease leave the 'Russian shill' accusations to Twitter.
- klenwell 8y agoYou'd have to have a pretty low opinion of Russian intelligence services if you didn't think they weren't keeping a tab open for this site.
- raverbashing 8y ago"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
- klenwell 8y agoHave noticed this, too. A particularly flagrant example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032596 Flagged to oblivion but if you've been following recent events you can probably make a pretty good guess as to the article. (Hint: NY Times)