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FYI- To encourage more organic “karma” , votes that are cast from people who accessed direct links aren’t counted
by wyxuan 6y ago
FYI- To encourage more organic “karma” , votes that are cast from people who accessed direct links aren’t counted
- galuggus 6y agoI don't follow your meaning. Could you explain more?
- echelon 6y agoUpvotes from direct links don't count. It's an anti-spam technique.
- EE84M3i 6y agoIt sounds like he's saying that depending on the Referer header for a loaded comments section, HN may or may not generate upvote buttons that are duds. Looks like there's an auth parameter in the upvote GET request, so sounds entirely plausible.
- searchableguy 6y agoHN always surprises me with little measures like this one.
- ehsankia 6y agoReddit has (and always had) this and many more. It's all part of their extensive anti-abuse system. For example if you go to someone's profile and downvote all their comments, that probably won't work. If you link your post on chat and tell them to go upvote you, won't work either. There's many more of these, and most of them look like they work but behind the scene reddit takes it all into consideration and knows people trying to game the system.