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Have a quick look at the /newest page here and you’ll see it dominated by people who are already gaming it for conventional SEO, just in case Google starts fact
by jasonkester 5y ago
Have a quick look at the /newest page here and you’ll see it dominated by people who are already gaming it for conventional SEO, just in case Google starts factoring this in some day.
If you make it Fake Internet Points are worth real money, all you’ll do is fill all these places with SEO people and ruin them.
Please don’t.
- dazc 5y agoRand Fishkin mentions in the opening chapter of his book that HN has an algorithm to detect coordinated upvoting from the same geo ip so you 'need' to have a network of people with different geo ips to game the system. So, yeah, it's going on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Founder-Painfully-Honest-Startup/dp/0241290929 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Founder-Painfully-Honest-Start...