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Is this a common practice on other +1-like buttons? (say facebook "like"s, twitter's RTs, digg/reddit upvotes, etc)
by galactus 15y ago
Is this a common practice on other +1-like buttons? (say facebook "like"s, twitter's RTs, digg/reddit upvotes, etc)
- acangiano 15y agoYup. You can buy pretty much any vote for $0.10-0.50 per account. Including Reddit and Hacker News. (Of course, it's black hat and you shouldn't do it.)
- genieyclo 15y agohttp://subvertandprofit.com/ http://subvertandprofit.com/
- mootothemax 15y agoWOW! $1/vote for Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon etc - the cheaters must have pretty deep pockets if they want to game the system! Or does it only take 10-20 votes to swing things in one's favour?
- genieyclo 15y agoIt used to be cheaper. But they must have had problems garnering business or fighting voting ring detection systems. You'll notice there is a wider array of sites listed now than before. Lots of new video sites and things like Kongregate which weren't there back in 07 when they were very busy are listed now. For example, Hacker News (not listed, but surely is vulnerable to this sort of thing), about 4-5 votes within 1 hour and you're guaranteed front page. s&p aren't the only ones offering services in the market of course.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoA few, early votes are what matter, then the snowball effect takes over.
- mcphilip 15y agoIn reddit's 'hot' ranking algorithm, the first 10 votes are weighted as heavily as the next 100 which are in turn weighted the same as the next 1000 [1]. So maybe purchasing 100 upvotes is optimal for that particular system. [1] http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588