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Pretty revealing that a HN post can make to the front page with a broken link.

• natly 4y ago
  Are you implying people don't read the body of the article or that there's bot interference? (I can imagine either could be true.)
  • hammock 4y ago
    The former. I for one happily upvote a submission before reading it, to keep it on the front page which is so fragilely ephemeral for new submissions, so I can read the article and then come back to (hopefully) some good comments from others in the thread.
• planarhobbit 4y ago
  Only if you haven’t been paying attention to how upvoting rings control HN, against all the behind the scenes work to thwart them.
• gpm 4y ago
  The original link works (for me), it just directs me through a captcha first. That's not a broken link by the usual meaning of the phrase, it doesn't mean people weren't reading the post...
  • knorker 4y ago
    Directed me to a captcha too. It's just that the captcha didn't work and "please try again".
    • Havoc 4y ago
      Yeah broken here too
• fragmede 4y ago
  Or is it intentionally broken, as a ploy to hurt Bloomberg's bot detection algorithm.
  • lalaland1125 4y ago
    Nope, just a dumb accident. I think Bloomberg redirected me right before I copied the URL from the address bar ... Is there any way to easily fix the link?