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There’s been some talk about this in other threads, but I’m still confused how it could tell the difference between a voting ring and a legitimately popular art
by snazz 8y ago
There’s been some talk about this in other threads, but I’m still confused how it could tell the difference between a voting ring and a legitimately popular article without having many false positives.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoContent marketing is usually easy enough to tell; even if upvoted by a voting ring, it'll be mercilessly flagged down.
- ollerac 8y agoI’m curious about this too, but I don’t think they’ll talk openly about it. For some hints, you could probably look at what data Google reCaptcha collects. The newest version (v3) doesn’t even require a user to click anything except a single button. I bet Reddit and HN use timing, browsing time, clicks, and mouse movements, among other things to tell if a lot of visitors are just coming to the site to upvote a single story or are genuinely browsing the site before coming across something interesting.
- revvx 8y agoI avoid talking about because I don't want people getting ideas, but it's easy to detect voting rings with HTTP referers and voting history alone