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This comment would be really funny if it was a joke.. but I just can't tell what's real anymore.
by leafmeal 6y ago
This comment would be really funny if it was a joke.. but I just can't tell what's real anymore.
- gzer0 6y ago[redacted]
- dang 6y agoThat's an example of a ring that was trying (rather hamfistedly) to manipulate HN, which was caught by our systems and neutralized long before the thread you're linking to ever happened. As I said at the time, if anyone can find an example of a story from those accounts making the HN front page, I'd like to hear about it at hn@ycombinator.com; examples of cases we missed are hugely helpful in plugging holes. But certainly the vast majority of their efforts went nowhere. People try every day to plant stuff on HN's front page, and every day our anti-abuse systems catch such efforts and apply different types of counter-action depending on the case. I'm not saying no one gets away with it (obviously we can't know that) but I can say for sure that anyone getting away with it would have to be way smarter than that group. In case anyone's interested, it happens that I've been working for the last few weeks on a new type of anti-abuse system, which is designed to more tightly enforce this site guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html