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I assume there is some script to post submissions since you've posted every hour in the past 24 hours? Not sure if that is against HN guidelines. The more curi

by anon2020dot00 4y ago

I assume there is some script to post submissions since you've posted every hour in the past 24 hours? Not sure if that is against HN guidelines. The more curious thing is what's the motivation for this effort to spam reposts? Is it just for Karma? It can't be for thoughtful discussion since no one is interested in so many topics to be reposting every hour.

lucb1e 4y ago
I don't see this in OP's submission history, nor in past submissions for this domain, nor in napolux' submission history. The only time it was posted previously was in 2020, exactly one year ago, and got a thousand points then. No idea where to find what you're talking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ddtaylor https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ddtaylor / https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=napolux.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=napolux.com / https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=napolux https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=napolux Edit: ah wait, it's not about this specific submission being repeated somewhere, it's that ddtaylor posts to HN previously-popular submissions every hour.
ddtaylor 4y ago
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- schnebbau 4y ago
  > This account is shared by all the people who work here. Who work where?
  - ddtaylor 4y ago
    All of us that share this PC used for monitoring uptime/metrics of our app.
    - schnebbau 4y ago
      What app?
- lucb1e 4y ago
  What is "here" (like what kind of company shares social media accounts other than troll farms?) and how come one of these people decide to post something previously-popular every hour? Do they genuinely find those threads interesting and worth repeating, but never does anyone see something interesting more or less often than once an hour?
  - ddtaylor 4y ago
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    - anon2020dot00 4y ago
      What did I insinuate? All I said are the two questions below: 1.) Are you using a script? 2.) What's the motivation? For number 1, you replied that it is shared account, okay. For number two, what's the motivation? No answer.
      - ddtaylor 4y ago
        What do you mean motivation?
        anon2020dot00 4y ago
        Assuming there is no script, it seems quite odd for an account to be posting every hour. It's just not normal behaviour. In Reddit, this would be classified as a bot for karma-farming. Not only myself, but a lot of people find it strange for people to invest their energy and time and attention to be using a shared account to be reposting stuff hourly if not for karma-farming. And it seems to be doing this straight for days at a time, just based on the recent account history.
        ddtaylor 4y ago
        I don't think most are stuck with a mind-numbing job of logging into a stupid remote PC to track metrics. We look for any entertainment we can find and leave little notes and stuff for the next person.
- dylan604 4y ago
  What/where/who are all the people who work here. your profile states "I'm just some guy". so either you're very conflicted with multiple personalities when you discuss all of those people working "here", or something more sinister is afoot. Too bad there's not another HN guideline that suggests not self-righteously posting about the guidelines
  - ddtaylor 4y ago
    That's a quote from a movie.
    - DonHopkins 4y ago
      That's not an answer to any of the questions he asked. Why are you so evasive? Just answer the questions.
- dang 4y ago
  This is becoming a distraction and we're getting lots of complaints about it. Many users have been emailing us (in keeping with the site guidelines). I need to ask you to stop doing this, because (1) this posting pattern is not consistent with intellectual curiosity; (2) accounts should not be shared by more than one person; (3) I have to say, that story doesn't seem entirely plausible to me. Forgive me if I'm misjudging this, but our experience with this usage pattern is that it tends to be associated with various kinds of scheme, ranging from relatively innocent to bannably abusive, so my pattern matcher is going 'I don't really buy that'. However, if your account really is just being shared by a group of people who all do a mindless job that runs 24 hours a day, all of whom are finding old successful HN threads to repost as a way to fulfill some mechanical job requirement, I still need to ask you to stop, because that's not in the spirit of the site. No repetitive-predictable pattern is. You're a good user otherwise, but please stop.

lucb1e 4y ago

I don't see this in OP's submission history, nor in past submissions for this domain, nor in napolux' submission history. The only time it was posted previously was in 2020, exactly one year ago, and got a thousand points then. No idea where to find what you're talking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ddtaylor https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ddtaylor / https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=napolux.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=napolux.com / https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=napolux https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=napolux Edit: ah wait, it's not about this specific submission being repeated somewhere, it's that ddtaylor posts to HN previously-popular submissions every hour.

ddtaylor 4y ago

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schnebbau 4y ago
> This account is shared by all the people who work here. Who work where?
- ddtaylor 4y ago
  All of us that share this PC used for monitoring uptime/metrics of our app.
  - schnebbau 4y ago
    What app?
lucb1e 4y ago
What is "here" (like what kind of company shares social media accounts other than troll farms?) and how come one of these people decide to post something previously-popular every hour? Do they genuinely find those threads interesting and worth repeating, but never does anyone see something interesting more or less often than once an hour?
- ddtaylor 4y ago
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  - anon2020dot00 4y ago
    What did I insinuate? All I said are the two questions below: 1.) Are you using a script? 2.) What's the motivation? For number 1, you replied that it is shared account, okay. For number two, what's the motivation? No answer.
    - ddtaylor 4y ago
      What do you mean motivation?
      - anon2020dot00 4y ago
        Assuming there is no script, it seems quite odd for an account to be posting every hour. It's just not normal behaviour. In Reddit, this would be classified as a bot for karma-farming. Not only myself, but a lot of people find it strange for people to invest their energy and time and attention to be using a shared account to be reposting stuff hourly if not for karma-farming. And it seems to be doing this straight for days at a time, just based on the recent account history.
        ddtaylor 4y ago
        I don't think most are stuck with a mind-numbing job of logging into a stupid remote PC to track metrics. We look for any entertainment we can find and leave little notes and stuff for the next person.
dylan604 4y ago
What/where/who are all the people who work here. your profile states "I'm just some guy". so either you're very conflicted with multiple personalities when you discuss all of those people working "here", or something more sinister is afoot. Too bad there's not another HN guideline that suggests not self-righteously posting about the guidelines
- ddtaylor 4y ago
  That's a quote from a movie.
  - DonHopkins 4y ago
    That's not an answer to any of the questions he asked. Why are you so evasive? Just answer the questions.
dang 4y ago
This is becoming a distraction and we're getting lots of complaints about it. Many users have been emailing us (in keeping with the site guidelines). I need to ask you to stop doing this, because (1) this posting pattern is not consistent with intellectual curiosity; (2) accounts should not be shared by more than one person; (3) I have to say, that story doesn't seem entirely plausible to me. Forgive me if I'm misjudging this, but our experience with this usage pattern is that it tends to be associated with various kinds of scheme, ranging from relatively innocent to bannably abusive, so my pattern matcher is going 'I don't really buy that'. However, if your account really is just being shared by a group of people who all do a mindless job that runs 24 hours a day, all of whom are finding old successful HN threads to repost as a way to fulfill some mechanical job requirement, I still need to ask you to stop, because that's not in the spirit of the site. No repetitive-predictable pattern is. You're a good user otherwise, but please stop.