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I'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
by mikecane 15y ago
I'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 :)