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I know most of the highest karma users and I'm pretty sure they're not using scripts. I also have lots of code watching voting patterns (e.g. for voting rings)
by pg 18y ago
I know most of the highest karma users and I'm pretty sure they're not using scripts. I also have lots of code watching voting patterns (e.g. for voting rings) and though it's common for a user to submit many stories from one site, the evidence suggests nearly all of them are doing it to drive traffic, not game karma.
- cperciva 18y agothough it's common for a user to submit many stories from one site... Hmm, looks like 15 of my 21 submissions have been from my blog. ... the evidence suggests nearly all of them are doing it to drive traffic... Ouch. Any chance that I can convince you that I honestly think that the articles I submit are of interest to hackers? After all, I don't submit all of my blog posts here... just almost all.
- pg 18y agoDon't worry, there's nothing wrong with submitting your own stuff. It's only a problem if it's offtopic.
- raganwald 18y agoI submit my own posts from time to time, and I've only had one killed (to my knowledge). And that one was easily explained: somebody else had beaten me to submitting my own post with a slightly different URL!
- user 18y ago> most of the highest karma users Ones who post articles from PG.