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How to game hackernews?.. or NOT
- adsahay 14y ago> We would like to conclude the post saying that it was not a marketing gimmick from our end. Being hackers ourselves, we just wanted to check if HN algo was vulnerable to such tricks. Ok does anyone buy this?
- anikendra 14y agoI understand y people might be annoyed with it.. but the point is we were trying this trick and if we actually were scammers i would continue doing that and generating traffic.
- anikendra 14y agoI understand y people might be annoyed with it.. but the point is we were trying this trick and if we actually were scammers i would continue doing that and generating traffic.
- smalter 14y agoI think the answer to this question is "not". The "gamed" post was flagged and killed.
- anikendra 14y agoI totally agree with you!! but the point is that you can hack your way to the homepage.. the moderators need to work on it.. and thats our point
- arikrak 14y agoHow did this get to front page? Hmm...