ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis (also geek.com and pcmag.com) accounts: - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly http://news.ycombinator

ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis (also geek.com and pcmag.com) accounts: - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 (their social media marketing manager, according to LinkedIn) - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a Then there's the mystery of: - Maxko87's (now hellbanned) autosubmitter for ExtremeTech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 - evo_9 who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are extremetech.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 - ukdm who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are geek.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm TechCrunch I think is as simple as YC startups going there and then propping each other's articles up. The Atlantic I'm not sure about, but they did just get busted spamming Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised. GitHub probably has high double-digits overlapping users on a site like this, I doubt they need to do anything nefarious.