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One of Pohl's laws is "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it". I always thought that could be the HN motto.
by IvyMike 13y ago
One of Pohl's laws is "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it".
I always thought that could be the HN motto.
- cheery 13y agoHAah. That's awesome presentation of a true observation.
- Ygg2 13y agoIt could be reddit's motto as well. I've not found a post >100 upvotes that wasn't downvoted at least once.
- haakon 13y agoThat's more likely to be reddit's vote fuzzing mechanism; any post with lots of upvotes will automatically get tempered with "fake" downvotes by the system.
- Ygg2 13y agoWhy? To counter some weird ass automated upvotes?
- maxerickson 13y agoI have the notion that bad voters are canceled out by sticking in votes on the other count. That makes it harder for them to sniff out the fact that they don't really count.
- DonPellegrino 13y agoReddit uses a hellbanning system like HN. Spammers and the like don't realize they are banned until they try to read their own posts from another account. The auto-downvote system along with score caching makes it a lot harder to tell if your upvote/downvote went through or not. It's just one of the many, many anti-bot systems built into Reddit.