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Before you upvote this post, note that ddtaylor is basically farming karma by reposting past HN stories that got significant upvotes. You can see from the user
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
Before you upvote this post, note that ddtaylor is basically farming karma by reposting past HN stories that got significant upvotes. You can see from the user's posting history that roughly 2 posts per hour are occurring, one of which is usually an old article, and this pattern has continued over the past several days. It would probably be a good idea for someone to report this to @dang.
This kind of implies some kind of automated posting as well, since it's unlikely somebody is sitting in front of their computer 24 hours a day to post twice an hour.
- jay3ss 4y agoWhat is the point of doing something like this here? Supposedly on a site like reddit people do this to increase karma and then can sell their account or whatever, but I don't see much of a point in doing that here.
- koolba 4y agoNot sure why this is a bad thing. Repeated / recent reposts would be merged into the same link anyway. Kind of reminds me of this classic xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
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