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Oh wow. Thank you for that explanation. It's impressive how many of these profiles were made. This means the total number of real HN accounts is probably sig
by joejohnson 15y ago
Oh wow. Thank you for that explanation. It's impressive how many of these profiles were made. This means the total number of real HN accounts is probably significantly less than 28k.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI'd count "real" profiles by requiring that they either post a link, have at least one non-dead comment, or upvote a non-dead comment.
- pitdesi 15y agoa lot of spammers post their website to HN, so that doesn't work either!
- ChuckMcM 15y agoWe've seen people who post a link to HN, then have a dozen or so of their fake user accounts up vote that link. Given the economic incentive of being/lingering on the front page there will be folks who try to game it.