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Yeah, I have it turned on and I see the dead articles, but those are more along the grounds of readers subjectively disagreeing with questionable ideas/content.

Yeah, I have it turned on and I see the dead articles, but those are more along the grounds of readers subjectively disagreeing with questionable ideas/content. I was talking about never seeing comments/links that are universally agreed upon as spam, like links to viagra sites etc.

icey 18y ago
Well, there's also a question of scale at play. I don't think HN gets enough visitors yet to make it worthwhile for spammers to target here instead of say, reddit.
- rms 18y ago
  It's also harder to get follow links here than at reddit.
- ojbyrne 18y ago
  I see noticeable amounts of spam in the "New" section. Sometimes anyway.