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I imagine it's probably not that difficult to game HN. The community's not that big, the big gaming boys work elsewhere on much larger sites so scaling down to
by iuguy 18y ago
I imagine it's probably not that difficult to game HN. The community's not that big, the big gaming boys work elsewhere on much larger sites so scaling down to HN won't be hard. If the article doesn't fit HN though, that's a different question.
- vaksel 18y agoyou can get to the top with 2-3 upvotes, hardly impossible
- axod 18y agoIf it's a lame article/spam/offtopic it'd usually get killed pretty quickly though. I'm not sure that's the case on digg/reddit.
- chris11 18y agoI've gotten to the first page with that number of upvotes, so it's definitely doable, you just need to have the link voted on shortly after submission.
- mixmax 18y agoDepends on who upvotes, different users have different weight.
- ErrantX 18y agoCreate 50 or 60 accounts and keep them ticking over (i.e. voting on random articles daily - maybe even comment from a few & submit the odd semi legit link). Then submit what you want and upvote carefully. Voila. Probably not that hard: though given the size of the community I'd hope we'd spot them.