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It's not like older accounts are necessarily any better. If you look at the leader board (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/lea
by bdcravens 8mo ago
It's not like older accounts are necessarily any better.
If you look at the leader board (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders), you'll find a few old accounts that pretty much do nothing but farm links, posting sometimes dozens of times a day, with a very low percentage of comments. Their high "score" isn't an indicator of quality; they just spam enough that a few get some good upvotes, but most of their submissions are low quality.
- starkparker 8mo agoThis has long been my biggest issue, much bigger than new accounts spamming slop. There are accounts with 10000x karma that do little more than feed links from the NY Times and similar publications, regardless of their relevance or value. Each one gets 4-5 karma, a few crack double digits. Post 10 or 20 a day over a year or two and they're five figures. Pure farming.
- AstroBen 8mo agoWhat's the point? It's not like karma gets you anything.. ..or are they selling the accounts?
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- starkparker 8mo agoNo idea. One such account's posted 24 articles in the last two weeks, most from either nytimes.com, theguardian.com, or newyorker.com. Half of them are unrelated to tech. They averaged 14 karma per post, but most of that (218) is in one NYT share that hit. That's right on the norm for this account. The prior two weeks of spam had one hit in 26 (Guardian, 500+ karma). The prior two weeks of spam had one hit in 30 (London Review of Books, on the Iran war, 100+ points before getting flagged). The prior two weeks, one hit in 15 (Guardian, 81 points, a dupe of an earlier submission).
- AlexeyBrin 8mo agoThe solution is for the users to be able to mute/hide accounts. It won't matter if an account has 10k points, once you mute it, you won't see what it posts.