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> aint no bots here sir That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted https://news.ycombin
by jrflowers 1y ago
> aint no bots here sir
That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian
And these two have been waiting years to comment but were finally moved to for first time
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7
- andyprevalsky 1y agothey aren't bots they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...
- dang 1y agoOf course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- andyprevalsky 1y agoYea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb
- AllyRectangle 1y agoI'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickfarm-at-our-office-the-activity-7366862143658348544-0nc-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA8eFQQB4NI7HAn15PEDv7pJV_GDhC2O7xo https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...
- dang 1y agoIt's no different.
- andyprevalsky 1y agoif we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol
- jrflowers 1y ago> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol Can you elaborate on what you mean by that
- slater 1y ago"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...
- jrflowers 1y agoI was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have. I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.
- andyprevalsky 1y agoI have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that
- jrflowers 1y agoSo the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?