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You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman The domain was registered one day after the HN

You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman The domain was registered one day after the HN account was registered, first post wasn't made for 14 days (aka. when the username no longer appears in green). In his defence, if he is a shill, he's not very good at it. Edit: hnsearch picked up a hellbanned post (it should appear on the front page, but it doesn't) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567259 that mentions a couple more accounts

orangethirty 14y ago
Google has a little spammer loose on HN. Neat.
- Kylekramer 14y ago
  Seems much more likely to be the people behind glass-apps.org than Google.
  - orangethirty 14y ago
    I'm not criticizing them, its neat to find something like this here. I can find it on almost any other site out there, but HN is not the place to game. Still, who knows if glass-apps.org is getting a nice check from Google. Not a bad thing, either. I know of companies whose sole reason of existence is to do this for bigger companies. Its just neat. That's all.
  - jacquesm 14y ago
    Confirmed: http://information-man.com/impressum/ http://information-man.com/impressum/ "Verantwortliche Ansprechperson: Iwan Uswak" information-man -> infoman whois glass-apps.org: Domain Name:GLASS-APPS.ORG Registrant ID:AT1001919805572 Registrant Name:Iwan Uswak
- jacquesm 14y ago
  that makes this submission extra funny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466
  - orangethirty 14y ago
    Meta-spamming. (: Blog post in 3...2...1...
taopao 14y ago
Looks like a bot that programmatically shovels trendy topical matter from RSS into HN. The submission and article headlines are identical, down to the curly quotes - smells of automation to me.
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- jacquesm 14y ago
  Bookmarklet.
xwei 14y ago
> You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman do you think Google created this? Obviously not, Google get nothing from it.
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mtgx 14y ago
He's just posting his own stuff...a little too often I agree, but nothing out of ordinary here beyond that. It's not like he's the first on HN who's ever done that.

orangethirty 14y ago

Google has a little spammer loose on HN. Neat.

Kylekramer 14y ago
Seems much more likely to be the people behind glass-apps.org than Google.
- orangethirty 14y ago
  I'm not criticizing them, its neat to find something like this here. I can find it on almost any other site out there, but HN is not the place to game. Still, who knows if glass-apps.org is getting a nice check from Google. Not a bad thing, either. I know of companies whose sole reason of existence is to do this for bigger companies. Its just neat. That's all.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  Confirmed: http://information-man.com/impressum/ http://information-man.com/impressum/ "Verantwortliche Ansprechperson: Iwan Uswak" information-man -> infoman whois glass-apps.org: Domain Name:GLASS-APPS.ORG Registrant ID:AT1001919805572 Registrant Name:Iwan Uswak
jacquesm 14y ago
that makes this submission extra funny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466
- orangethirty 14y ago
  Meta-spamming. (: Blog post in 3...2...1...

taopao 14y ago

Looks like a bot that programmatically shovels trendy topical matter from RSS into HN. The submission and article headlines are identical, down to the curly quotes - smells of automation to me.

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jacquesm 14y ago
Bookmarklet.

xwei 14y ago

> You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman do you think Google created this? Obviously not, Google get nothing from it.

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mtgx 14y ago

He's just posting his own stuff...a little too often I agree, but nothing out of ordinary here beyond that. It's not like he's the first on HN who's ever done that.