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Hacker News (and Reddit) has voting ring detection, if the same people vote for each others articles regularly they'll get penalized for doing so.
by ig1 14y ago
Hacker News (and Reddit) has voting ring detection, if the same people vote for each others articles regularly they'll get penalized for doing so.
- steve8918 14y agoIt seems that someone can create a new sockpuppet account, and everyone in the ring can vote up the sockpuppet. This would probably be a lot harder to detect. Maybe if there was a 24hr waiting period before a new account can submit articles or comment, it might curtail this, somewhat.
- ig1 14y agoNot really, it's just a case of measuring correlations of voting habits. Plus new accounts with no comment history submitting stories is a spammer red flag anyway.