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All these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in. (I know this post is treading

by oefrha 7y ago

All these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in. (I know this post is treading the line on insinuations about shilling. Sorry dang.)

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unityByFreedom 7y ago
For posterity, here's what it looks like right now, this post: http://archive.is/c3Mpu http://archive.is/c3Mpu front page: http://archive.ph/HKaBA http://archive.ph/HKaBA (#4 now, it was #1 a few minutes ago)
2jaer 7y ago
Yeah, seems to be his twitter friends and/or groups
- dang 7y ago
  It's against HN's rules to ask friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN voting and commenting is opposed to the spirit of the site, and the community is adamantly against it, as you can see from the comments making objections to the earlier pattern in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  - unityByFreedom 7y ago
    Thank you for drawing this line clearly. Frequently elsewhere I see mods decrying self-promotion, yet there should be nothing wrong with posting your own material (otherwise, what is the internet for, only consumption?). The problem comes when you beg people from outside the community to give you recognition through forced comments/votes.
mikaelmello 7y ago
To be fair, mine was honest ;) I have been missing something like this on Chrome but never went looking for it, until it appeared here on HN. It is sad though that the product owner has asked people from outside to upvote and even comment this post.

by oefrha 7y ago

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unityByFreedom 7y ago

For posterity, here's what it looks like right now, this post: http://archive.is/c3Mpu http://archive.is/c3Mpu front page: http://archive.ph/HKaBA http://archive.ph/HKaBA (#4 now, it was #1 a few minutes ago)

2jaer 7y ago

Yeah, seems to be his twitter friends and/or groups

dang 7y ago
It's against HN's rules to ask friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN voting and commenting is opposed to the spirit of the site, and the community is adamantly against it, as you can see from the comments making objections to the earlier pattern in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- unityByFreedom 7y ago
  Thank you for drawing this line clearly. Frequently elsewhere I see mods decrying self-promotion, yet there should be nothing wrong with posting your own material (otherwise, what is the internet for, only consumption?). The problem comes when you beg people from outside the community to give you recognition through forced comments/votes.

mikaelmello 7y ago

To be fair, mine was honest ;) I have been missing something like this on Chrome but never went looking for it, until it appeared here on HN. It is sad though that the product owner has asked people from outside to upvote and even comment this post.