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The upvotes on this brand new post - almost 1 a minute, speak to a level of astro-turfing I've rarely seen here.
by kaishiro 12d ago
The upvotes on this brand new post - almost 1 a minute, speak to a level of astro-turfing I've rarely seen here.
- lukaspetersson 12d agoIt's not from us. Didn't send the link to a single person.
- andriy_koval 12d agoHow can we know this?..
- lukaspetersson 12d agoNo way to confirm. True.
- tomhow 12d agoThe post was placed on the front page via second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). This happens all the time on HN. The voting is legitimate; there's no evidence that the voting is from sockpuppets or anyone else connected with the team/project. We always monitor the discussion and the voting, and if the discussion is not of sufficient quality, the post will not stay on the front page for long.
- SyneRyder 12d agoshrug I upvoted, I'd already seen the Pion announcement on Twitter and read the link. I'm also a regular listener of Andon FM, so I'm interested in what they do and it's nice to finally sneak a peak at the interface that was driving things behind the scenes Listening to the radio stations certainly gives an insight into the various failure modes. Some of them are just failure modes that any business would encounter once they make contact with the scale of the real world.