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I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.

• 0003 14y ago
  The parent is referring to other sites, perhaps most notably ExtremeTech, that Ziff Davis owns often (appear to) spam HN.
  • jschuur 14y ago
    Fair enough. I haven't noticed submissions from them either. Then again, I just browser the first 2 pages and hardly dig into the new submissions area.
• benologist 14y ago
  Ziff Davis had/has a half a dozen employee shill accounts at different times for extremetech.com, geek.com and pcmag.com. This is a great illustration another HN user (DanBC) put together: http://imgur.com/a/EfzHB http://imgur.com/a/EfzHB They have almost no natural submissions to HN.
  • jschuur 14y ago
    To be honest, those accounts in those pics don't convince me of anything. Most of the frequent posters from those domains post plenty of other links to other sites. They were created years apart. Two of them seem to post extremetech.com and/or geek.com exclusively, but posts are 5-10 days apart. Isn't it a lot more likely that these are simply people who happen to read enough of those particular sites and post to HN to turn up on in a chart like this? There's not enough data points to point to any kind of concerted effort by these sites over the span of years. And even _if_ that were the case. Suppose someone affiliated with these sites is posting 1-2 links a week, that's hardly flooding the system. There's still the voting system, right? Good articles float towards the top. The new submissions page isn't jam packed with dozens of articles a day from these sites, is it?
    • benologist 14y ago
      ukdm and russellholly are this guy: https://plus.google.com/106631699076927387965 https://plus.google.com/106631699076927387965 http://www.geek.com/users/rholly/ http://www.geek.com/users/rholly/ http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly mrsebastian is this guy: http://www.extremetech.com/author/santhony http://www.extremetech.com/author/santhony http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian maxko87 is an unknown who ran an autosubmitter for two sites one of which happened to be extremetech, till he got hellbanned: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=maxko87 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=maxko87 adeelarshad82 is their social media marketing guy: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelarshad82 http://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelarshad82 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 Then there's these guys who really love ziff davis properties: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=memoryfailure And this guy who just likes them a lot of the time, he may just be a regular karma whore if that is a real thing. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 That accounts for almost all Ziff Davis submissions.
  • mwilcox 14y ago
    IIRC, IGN has previously been banned from reddit for malicious upvoting, so I guess they suit each other.