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Haha, OK, I'm doubling down on upvote fraud here. Someone is clearly artificially upvoting sibling replies to my parent comment to displace it. My parent comm
by smallgovt 8y ago
Haha, OK, I'm doubling down on upvote fraud here. Someone is clearly artificially upvoting sibling replies to my parent comment to displace it.
My parent comment received 14 upvotes and was ranked as the top response for the 4 hours after posting it.
Then, in the span of one hour, every other comment reply received enough upvotes to displace my parent comment. Even, "Thank you for sharing this".
Is there a way to call @dang over? It makes me sad that HN is being gamed.
- dang 8y agoI appreciate your concern for the integrity of HN—the fact that the community here feels so strongly about that is one of the best and most community-like things about it. However. If you read the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), you'll notice that: (1) commenting on voting on comments is off topic; (2) insinuating astroturfing is not ok; (3) you should email us instead: hn@ycombinator.com. Re #1: a moderator correctly marked your comment off topic. That lowers its rank. Re #2: I looked at the upvotes. There's no trace of abuse that I can see. People are far, far too quick to assume manipulation when the truth is simply that large subsets of the community like different things. That's why we have that guideline.