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Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!

by Klwohu 6y ago

guram11 6y ago
first time on HN? lol
__turbobrew__ 6y ago
*5 fen army
- AussieWog93 6y ago
  (To be pedantic, it's actually 5 jiao/mao (hence the phrase "wumao") - 50 fen in total.)
  - __turbobrew__ 6y ago
    A cent is 1/100th of a dollar and a fen is 1/100th of a yuan?
    - AussieWog93 6y ago
      Yep, and one mao is 10 fen. So 5 mao (wumao) is 50 fen.
deleted 6y ago
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tammerk 6y ago
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
- meibo 6y ago
  It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do. Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded? Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
  - tammerk 6y ago
    This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
    - wait_a_minute 6y ago
      What if some of those people are on the HN team?
      - tammerk 6y ago
        We'll see if they are going to prevent this.
      - pas 6y ago
        Eventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.
      - dang 6y ago
        You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.
  - unityByFreedom 6y ago
    If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.
riteme 6y ago
> Five cent army, assemble! lol
mam2 6y ago
How do you see that
powerapple 6y ago
This is not the right attitude. People should be allowed to participate, and they can downvote whenever they see fit.
- me_me_me 6y ago
  That's not participation, that's violating community protocols. Downvote is not used to show that you disagree but that the reply is low effort, inflammatory etc.
  - yorwba 6y ago
    Flagging is for guideline-breaking content and a sufficient number of flags suppresses visibility except for people who have showdead on. Whereas upvotes and downvotes control the sort order without silencing anyone, reflecting (albeit noisily) the overall community sentiment. Voting based on agreement is a perfectly valid way to use HN, and it seems to be what the majority is doing. (At least judging from the votes on my own comments, where I can see the count.)
dang 6y ago
You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there. Edit: we had to warn you about this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549570). Continuing to break the rules like this will get your account banned. (Btw, if you or anyone think I might be posting this because I'm secretly a communist, foreign agent, or $x-sympathizer, please see step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.)
- DreamScatter 6y ago
  So, you're also a chinese shill?
  - dang 6y ago
    https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and badly—badly enough to ban your account. I'm not going to ban your account for this comment, but please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward.

Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!

by Klwohu 6y ago

Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!

guram11 6y ago

first time on HN? lol

__turbobrew__ 6y ago

*5 fen army

AussieWog93 6y ago
(To be pedantic, it's actually 5 jiao/mao (hence the phrase "wumao") - 50 fen in total.)
- __turbobrew__ 6y ago
  A cent is 1/100th of a dollar and a fen is 1/100th of a yuan?
  - AussieWog93 6y ago
    Yep, and one mao is 10 fen. So 5 mao (wumao) is 50 fen.

deleted 6y ago

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tammerk 6y ago

> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.

meibo 6y ago
It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do. Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded? Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
- tammerk 6y ago
  This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
  - wait_a_minute 6y ago
    What if some of those people are on the HN team?
    - tammerk 6y ago
      We'll see if they are going to prevent this.
    - pas 6y ago
      Eventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.
    - dang 6y ago
      You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.
- unityByFreedom 6y ago
  If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.

riteme 6y ago

> Five cent army, assemble! lol

mam2 6y ago

How do you see that

powerapple 6y ago

This is not the right attitude. People should be allowed to participate, and they can downvote whenever they see fit.

me_me_me 6y ago
That's not participation, that's violating community protocols. Downvote is not used to show that you disagree but that the reply is low effort, inflammatory etc.
- yorwba 6y ago
  Flagging is for guideline-breaking content and a sufficient number of flags suppresses visibility except for people who have showdead on. Whereas upvotes and downvotes control the sort order without silencing anyone, reflecting (albeit noisily) the overall community sentiment. Voting based on agreement is a perfectly valid way to use HN, and it seems to be what the majority is doing. (At least judging from the votes on my own comments, where I can see the count.)

dang 6y ago

You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there. Edit: we had to warn you about this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549570). Continuing to break the rules like this will get your account banned. (Btw, if you or anyone think I might be posting this because I'm secretly a communist, foreign agent, or $x-sympathizer, please see step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.)

DreamScatter 6y ago
So, you're also a chinese shill?
- dang 6y ago
  https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and badly—badly enough to ban your account. I'm not going to ban your account for this comment, but please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward.