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This does not make it less of a speculative bubble. Yet another tulip breed, in a growing tulip market. Similarly, the upvote chart for this entry may look lik

This does not make it less of a speculative bubble. Yet another tulip breed, in a growing tulip market. Similarly, the upvote chart for this entry may look like it was shared on some place hours after being posted, and upvoted in bulk: https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/29024311 https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/29024311 [edit: removed "insinuating" bit, against HN guidelines]

Kiro 5y ago
What are you insinuating? I couldn't care less about Shiba Inu but someone buying something for $8000 which in 400 days is worth $5.7b is a crazy story worth upvoting. It doesn't need any vote brigading. Also: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
codetrotter 5y ago
I don’t think that’s necessarily the way to interpret that graph. Look at 2:12:08 PM. It still has only 5 upvotes but gets placed onto position 26 of the best list. Sometimes posts that had few votes get put on the best list and given a second chance. Looks to me like that’s how this story started getting more votes, allowing it to gain traction. See also this post by HN moderator “dang” about the second chance system and the comments he wrote there as well about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- cunidev 5y ago
  I did not know of this system (which makes a lot of sense), although "crypto X pumped" does not seem any similar to the criteria: > Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. Anyway, don't want to put the tin-foil hat. I removed the incriminating bit.
  - codetrotter 5y ago
    > Anyway, don't want to put the tin-foil hat. I removed the incriminating bit. Thanks, your original comment is better now after that edit I think.
    - cunidev 5y ago
      Yeah, agree. My temporary grumpiness made me jump to conclusions too fast.

Kiro 5y ago

What are you insinuating? I couldn't care less about Shiba Inu but someone buying something for $8000 which in 400 days is worth $5.7b is a crazy story worth upvoting. It doesn't need any vote brigading. Also: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

codetrotter 5y ago

I don’t think that’s necessarily the way to interpret that graph. Look at 2:12:08 PM. It still has only 5 upvotes but gets placed onto position 26 of the best list. Sometimes posts that had few votes get put on the best list and given a second chance. Looks to me like that’s how this story started getting more votes, allowing it to gain traction. See also this post by HN moderator “dang” about the second chance system and the comments he wrote there as well about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

cunidev 5y ago
I did not know of this system (which makes a lot of sense), although "crypto X pumped" does not seem any similar to the criteria: > Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. Anyway, don't want to put the tin-foil hat. I removed the incriminating bit.
- codetrotter 5y ago
  > Anyway, don't want to put the tin-foil hat. I removed the incriminating bit. Thanks, your original comment is better now after that edit I think.
  - cunidev 5y ago
    Yeah, agree. My temporary grumpiness made me jump to conclusions too fast.