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@dang — pretty annoying that this user is engagement farming by reposting classics. Not great behavior. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199361 https://
by AirMax98 3y ago
@dang — pretty annoying that this user is engagement farming by reposting classics. Not great behavior.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199361
- JCharante 3y agoWow they submit like 20 posts a day but I've never noticed their name before
- wharvle 3y ago“95%ile in HN-driven engagement, even among those trying, isn’t actually that good—most don’t even bother to set up a submission cron-job against a list of historically-upvoted classic posts”
- no1pcjfan 3y ago[flagged]
- NooneAtAll3 3y agohe's alone, tho
- eindiran 3y agoPeople post/repost the classics all the time, why are you tattling this aggressively, lol? It just needs a [2020] tag.
- tbalsam 3y agoIt's not tattling if it's well against the intended effects of the system.
- tstrimple 3y agoMaybe the aggression is due to the frequency. They posted almost 50 articles yesterday alone.
- AirMax98 3y agoThis is spam. I like to come here and want to contribute new ideas to the discourse here. I expect others to do the same.
- zlg_codes 3y agoSo you don't think there's anything new to be said about this article, by anyone? We're deluding ourselves if we think we're finding new ideas on what amounts to a faded techbro subreddit. Much of the discussion in tech happens in circles until we start talking about concrete code.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThe person who made this post has made 30 submissions in the last 24 hours. That's extreme, regardless of whether this particular one has any merit.
- zlg_codes 3y agoYeah I'm not interested in that part, that's obviously suspicious behavior that admins will ideally handle. The person I replied to said the content itself was spam and claimed to care about new ideas being shared. Also, if you're on a website or platform long enough that a repost angers you, go outside. Read a book. Play a game. There is better shit to worry about than how many times a page is linked to on a forum.
- potatopatch 3y agoBring us some fresh wine, the freshest you've got!
- tptacek 3y agoWe want the finest wines available to humanity, and we want them here, and we want them now.
- born2meme 3y ago[dead]
- madamelic 3y agoYep, they aren't progressively posting them, OP is spamming at this point. Quite sad considering their account is from 2010, they should understand HN more. Looks like they are trying to drive people to their sites judging from the long list of URLs on their profile. For the last 24 hours, they've submitted 30 posts with zero other contributions such as comments.
- no1pcjfan 3y agoThis has been HN for years now. It’s a click farm with canned talking points.
- zlg_codes 3y agoIt's kinda sad, this place feels kinda like Slashdot, and not in a good way. :(
- no1pcjfan 3y agoAs long as you can upvote/downvote/flag shit, you’ll get shit. The incentives aren’t aligned. That’s exactly why you’d have someone re-posting this stuff. People here aren’t old enough to remember when this happened on Digg, Nevermind Slashdot. Dang was in elementary school back then.
- zlg_codes 3y agoAgreed. There's something flawed about the voting model that totally messes with people socially. It ends up replacing actual discourse with gamesmanship. I assume the green handle is because you're a mod. ~~Given that you seem to understand the design problems and limitations, do you feel like modding sites like these is more of a hassle than other platforms? Investigating antisocial shit seems more complex than just checking DMs and post history. Voting history is relevant, too.~~ Assumption wrong.
- no1pcjfan 3y ago
- tptacek 3y agoThere's no such thing as "@dang". When you have concerns like this, mail hn@ycombinator.com, rather than crudding up the thread. Whatever this users is doing, Dan Luu's posts tend to be treasures, and we can have reasonable threads on them even as you try to clear up the submission behavior with Dan.
- gnicholas 3y agoI think what the commenter did was reasonable, since it also lets other HNers know that this is a behavior to be on the lookout for. I knew people spammed HN with links to their own websites, but I didn't realize people tried did the same with previously-successful submissions. I agree with the commenter that this isn't appropriate, even if it sometimes leads to good discussions. I appreciate that he posted it here, even if he ultimately has to email HN to get this addressed. Perhaps the best resolution is for a rule to be added to the HN guidelines. I don't mind people submitting a lot, but if you're just recycling old stuff that's not great IMO.
- tptacek 3y agoThe guidelines are pretty explicit about asking people not to write comments like this. Either way: "@dang" is not a thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gnicholas 3y agoI'm curious to know which of those guidelines covers this somewhat-novel situation. @-ing the mods may not officially be a thing, but I have to say whenever there is a comment starting with that handle that rises up in the comments, it gets attention right quick.
- akerl_ 3y ago> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.