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Anyone else wonder why legitimate, thoughtful responses are being downvoted?
by voisin 6y ago
Anyone else wonder why legitimate, thoughtful responses are being downvoted?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y agoWumao aka the 50 Cent Party is "In Da Club."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
- av_engr 6y agoI remember seeing somewhere that showed recent transaction of an "internet commentator" (WuMao/50cent). They got a pay raise and earn 70cents a thread/post now. lol
- dang 6y agoPlease follow the site guidelines when posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- billme 6y agoThere are a lot of “shadow” voters on HN. One might speculate there’s voting rings, but given HN doesn’t allow a given user’s voting history to be public, impossible to audit it to look dark patterns, puppet masters, etc.
- ganzuul 6y agoI regularly upvote downvoted comments if it looks like someone used a downvote as an "I disagree"-button. Just undo that nonsense.
- dang 6y agoPlease follow the site guidelines when posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html