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Maybe pg's spam controls are just excellent, but it really doesn't look like HN is being gamed too hard. There are the usual serial self-promoter/spammers (the
by jokermatt999 16y ago
Maybe pg's spam controls are just excellent, but it really doesn't look like HN is being gamed too hard. There are the usual serial self-promoter/spammers (the kind that submit everything they post, regardless of quality), but I really haven't seen that many problems. Perhaps we shouldn't be as worried about flags being abused.
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- stcredzero 16y agoI think we should be worried. From what I've seen on reddit, downvote abuse seems much worse than upvote abuse. Flag abuse would be much the same as downvote abuse. The power of upvote cabals is often dwarfed by the will of the majority. Downvote cabals can prevent material from being seen by the majority, so they are inherently more powerful. (The distance from 1 to -5 is much less than 1 to 99.)
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