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'... It worked, didn't it? :-) ...' wrong crowd to try this kind of (social) hack :)

• pg 19y ago
  That's true. One downside of having an anti-jerk culture here is that people are more trusting.
  • benhoyt 19y ago
    Point taken. My morals caught up with my sense of humour and I took it down. Once might be funny, but I realised that if a lot of people did things like this, News.YC (which I really like) would be made useless.
  • bootload 19y ago
    "... One downside of having an anti-jerk culture here is that people are more trusting. ..." But there are checks & balances. For each user, history (past intentions) allows a simple metric, 'karma/created' to base any decision on. That and the fact 'double clicks', 'easter eggs' are a windows paradigm & the user is a cheeky 'Kiwi'