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This is most likely what's happening. I submitted an interesting book review. The kind that would get routinely ignored on HN. It immediately got 8 points. Very
by acangiano 15y ago
This is most likely what's happening. I submitted an interesting book review. The kind that would get routinely ignored on HN. It immediately got 8 points. Very odd. I expect it to die any time now.
- mikecane 15y agoI've rarely had submissions killed. But I was surprised when mine got ten points within moments of posting it. That made me suspicious and since then it's the likely reason for submissions being killed: Someone is giving everything bogus points.
- gruseom 15y agoYou guys are more on the ball than I am. When my post got instant upvotes I thought, "How pleasant that so many people are interested in dataflow computation". Probably HN's software is detecting the suspicious voting and killing the posts.
- jacquesm 15y agoI've seen the same thing happen on this article that I wrote last friday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775365 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775365 It went up like a rocket and disappeared just as fast. I didn't submit it so I have no clue whether or not the submitter gamed the system but it sure looked weird. Given the subject of this thread that's actually an on-topic link :)