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if you go watch the 'upvote' count on his comment, it is flickering rapidly, up two, down one, up one, down two - fascinating.

coloneltcb 14y ago
Surely Scientology's army of Astro-turfers are working overtime tonight
- joezydeco 14y ago
  And Reddit is probably on the case as well...
  - a_bonobo 14y ago
    HN seems to be much more active on this topic, if you check Reddit's posted links here, some links, few votes, few comments yet: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fsponsored%2Fscientology%2Farchive%2F2013%2F01%2Fdavid-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-%2F266958%2F http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanti...
fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
Good then, It's not just me.
irollboozers 14y ago
I think any forum with upvote/downvote needs to have this, so cool to watch.
madiator 14y ago
I don't know understand why its going down? The downvotes should be displayed separately and should not affect the upvotes, unless the upvotes are getting deleted (by somebody or by the upvoters themselves)
- illuminate 14y ago
  Because either the Atlantic is moderating the comments or the COS employs a lot of sockpuppets (my guess on the latter.)
tylerlh 14y ago
A few minutes ago his comment had over 600 upvotes. Now it's teetering around 300.. it appears the moderators are also removing upvotes?
anonymoushn 14y ago
You can cause the same thing to happen to any comment by rapidly clicking the upvote button. This seems to cause the upvote count to drift upward, even though you would expect it to just oscillate between two values. I've just taken parkermoseyondown's comment from 0 to 40 upvotes. Edit: This seems to be a UI issue. After reloading his comment is sitting at only 1 upvote.
Blahah 14y ago
Now his comment seems to have gone...
- neumann_alfred 14y ago
  Yup. CREEPY.
- illuminate 14y ago
  Hrm, I'll be fascinated to know whether there's a COS employee of the Atlantic or whether they give moderator accounts to their advertisers, HuffPo-style.

coloneltcb 14y ago

Surely Scientology's army of Astro-turfers are working overtime tonight

joezydeco 14y ago
And Reddit is probably on the case as well...
- a_bonobo 14y ago
  HN seems to be much more active on this topic, if you check Reddit's posted links here, some links, few votes, few comments yet: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fsponsored%2Fscientology%2Farchive%2F2013%2F01%2Fdavid-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-%2F266958%2F http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanti...

fnordfnordfnord 14y ago

Good then, It's not just me.

irollboozers 14y ago

I think any forum with upvote/downvote needs to have this, so cool to watch.

madiator 14y ago

I don't know understand why its going down? The downvotes should be displayed separately and should not affect the upvotes, unless the upvotes are getting deleted (by somebody or by the upvoters themselves)

illuminate 14y ago
Because either the Atlantic is moderating the comments or the COS employs a lot of sockpuppets (my guess on the latter.)

tylerlh 14y ago

A few minutes ago his comment had over 600 upvotes. Now it's teetering around 300.. it appears the moderators are also removing upvotes?

anonymoushn 14y ago

You can cause the same thing to happen to any comment by rapidly clicking the upvote button. This seems to cause the upvote count to drift upward, even though you would expect it to just oscillate between two values. I've just taken parkermoseyondown's comment from 0 to 40 upvotes. Edit: This seems to be a UI issue. After reloading his comment is sitting at only 1 upvote.

Blahah 14y ago

Now his comment seems to have gone...

neumann_alfred 14y ago
Yup. CREEPY.
illuminate 14y ago
Hrm, I'll be fascinated to know whether there's a COS employee of the Atlantic or whether they give moderator accounts to their advertisers, HuffPo-style.