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The best way to farm karma on HN is to post a random Wikipedia article every day

• matthewsinclair 2y ago
  Y’know, I see these random Wikipedia articles come up every day or so on the front page and wonder what is going on. I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content. The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”. Who knows.
• CPLX 2y ago
  I mean assuming the articles are well chosen that seems like a public service
  • kevindamm 2y ago
    ..and if they aren't well chosen, they should drift off the front page soon enough
  • HPsquared 2y ago
    Aligned incentives.
• dvh 2y ago
  I've posted this and nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956
• penfolder 2y ago
  Dumb question. What advantage is there to having hn karma?
  • arnaudsm 2y ago
    After 500 you're allowed to downvote
  • efitz 2y ago
    I learned from social media that having bigger numbers is better; it means that you are a better person.