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It has been flagged and still is. Not sure what kind of reputation damage it might have done if it was not caught, and the author, obviously has not been trying
by YeBanKo 4y ago
It has been flagged and still is. Not sure what kind of reputation damage it might have done if it was not caught, and the author, obviously has not been trying to hide too hard.
- Maursault 4y ago> It has been flagged and still is. We don't know why it is flagged, but we can probably guess accurately it was due to the blogger's activity in somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophesy. I suspect he can now enjoy his black hole. > if it was not caught, It was caught by the first HN member to comment, which isn't all that surprising. We'll have to wait while up to a few of the several dozens of HN employees get around to completing an incident postmortem, and I suspect we'll never hear anything. It's very Art of War to let the attacker continue to believe they've succeeded.
- YeBanKo 4y ago> It was caught by the first HN member to comment And this is what his attack was: making legitimate users flag a legitimate article.
- Maursault 4y agoNeither the legitimacy of the article nor that of the users' flags is in question. The flags merely draw attention to the fact that the voting was obviously illegitimate. IOW, the attacker drew attention to the attack only, and the article is flagged because of the attack, but the flagging itself is proper. So the attack caused the proper response of flagging. Not all that impressive. Preventing an illegitimate article composed entirely of Lorem Ipsum from being flagged off the front page would be impressive.