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If this was happening on HN, the majority of domains would be banned. When did this start being a "shady business practice"?
by paulhauggis 14y ago
If this was happening on HN, the majority of domains would be banned.
When did this start being a "shady business practice"?
- benologist 14y agoThis is happening on HN - bostinno.com literally has dozens of accounts, macobserver.com, bgr.com, extremetech.com and a bunch of other sites all have a handful of accounts each. A lot seems to slip through the cracks.
- Zarel 14y agoI think you're missing paulhauggis's point - by "if this was happening", he means "if we banned domains that were being submitted by paid marketers". His point is that doing so shouldn't be considered a shady business practice.
- spambot 14y agoIt's wrong because employees are getting paid to submit as many links as possible to increase page views. Here's another bostinno spammer: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dmcgregor http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dmcgregor
- benologist 14y agoThat really is just one of dozens... pg went through and hellbanned a bunch of them a while ago but they've started up again with a handful of accounts already. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3929297 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3929297
- spambot 14y agoI wonder what their investors think of this.
- tbeseda 14y agoIn which cases are people buying high karma HN accounts and buying upvotes?
- benologist 14y agoI don't think they're buying them yet but it looks a lot like people expect that market to emerge - earlier tonight there was a bunch of mashable stories from accounts that were each 175 days old and each submitting just a generic cross-section of fluff from popular sites.