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Not sure why only a few alt accounts instead of perhaps thousands would be used by someone who would want to influence what topics get discussed and what don't.
by soheil 4y ago
Not sure why only a few alt accounts instead of perhaps thousands would be used by someone who would want to influence what topics get discussed and what don't. Also not difficult to use a reverse exponential decay function to modulate votes.
- Eisenstein 4y agoHow does one get a few thousand accounts with more than the karma limit needed to be able to downvote?
- soheil 4y agoAuto submit tech news articles periodiclly?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI think they look for cliques in the graph of people who upvote certain content. Even with "natural" vote times, you may get caught doing this over and over. This is one of the ways that Reddit and Twitter search for bots too.
- soheil 4y agoI mean we have super sophisticated botnets causing havoc on major/state-linked social media platforms, I think they can handle HN.
- netmonk 4y agoyou dont need botnet that much, when most of member of a group you belong are conditionned to react (in a pavlov way) to specific trigger. Social engineering at it's finest.