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Submitting a story with a bad title would make for a similar, if weaker, exploit for Hacker News. A key to this would be to make the title boring rather than o

Submitting a story with a bad title would make for a similar, if weaker, exploit for Hacker News. A key to this would be to make the title boring rather than offensive so that it doesn't get flagged but rather slips off "new" into oblivion. You can also use a handy chart [1] to pick the worst time to post. As a bonus you'll also get karma from all the people legitimately trying to submit the story. A pertinent question: can you come up with a sufficiently boring title for any story? [1] http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-a-comprehensive-answer/ http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...

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wmf 14y ago
HN's dupe detector is so weak that you can just add ?reposting or something to the URL and it will get another chance.
- rcfox 14y ago
  People (like me) notice this, and don't appreciate it.
  - mparlane 14y ago
    People notice this and realize there is a reason they have done so.
  - jcr 14y ago
    When you think it through completely, you'll see there's good reason for the dupe detector to be lenient. In the early days of HN (or earlier, as "Startup News"), avoiding dupes was more important since the rate of submissions to the /newest queue was fairly slow. These days, the rate of submissions is very brisk, so a lot of really great stuff floats by basically unnoticed. Allowing for a second chance actually makes sense. If you have "Show Dead" on, you'll see there are a lot of people submitting who have their submissions immediately marked [dead]. If you've studied how HN is built, you'll see pg (et al) tends to follow an "Enough Rope" design policy -- this is from the old expression "Give him enough rope to hang himself, and he will." It seems if you intentionally and repeatedly abuse the lenient dupe detector to promote something, you will be noticed, silently, and handled accordingly.

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wmf 14y ago

HN's dupe detector is so weak that you can just add ?reposting or something to the URL and it will get another chance.

rcfox 14y ago
People (like me) notice this, and don't appreciate it.
- mparlane 14y ago
  People notice this and realize there is a reason they have done so.
- jcr 14y ago
  When you think it through completely, you'll see there's good reason for the dupe detector to be lenient. In the early days of HN (or earlier, as "Startup News"), avoiding dupes was more important since the rate of submissions to the /newest queue was fairly slow. These days, the rate of submissions is very brisk, so a lot of really great stuff floats by basically unnoticed. Allowing for a second chance actually makes sense. If you have "Show Dead" on, you'll see there are a lot of people submitting who have their submissions immediately marked [dead]. If you've studied how HN is built, you'll see pg (et al) tends to follow an "Enough Rope" design policy -- this is from the old expression "Give him enough rope to hang himself, and he will." It seems if you intentionally and repeatedly abuse the lenient dupe detector to promote something, you will be noticed, silently, and handled accordingly.