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Vote gamed: http://twitter.com/andrew_chen/status/2873238341 http://twitter.com/andrew_chen/status/2873238341
by anurag 17y ago
Vote gamed: http://twitter.com/andrew_chen/status/2873238341 http://twitter.com/andrew_chen/status/2873238341
- jimboyoungblood 17y agoThat's a pretty loose definition of "gamed". Obama ran campaign ads and probably said "vote for me" to at least a couple of people- was the presidential election gamed as well?
- anurag 17y agoThe US presidential election was won with influence and money. Would Obama have won as an independent candidate? In that sense, the election was indeed gamed. Andrew too, is trying to use his influence (his 4630 Twitter followers) to win votes on HN. Because other stories on HN don't have the weight of massive Twitter broadcasts behind them, I view Andrew's actions as gaming the system.
- alex_c 17y agoIt only takes one or two votes to get a new story on the front page. Past that, of course, it quickly disappears if it doesn't receive more votes - as it should. Not arguing for or against anything, I just think that "4630 Twitter followers" and "massive Twitter broadcasts" is completely overstating the issue. You only need a couple of friends who also read HN.
- helveticaman 17y agoDifferent rules. In the presidential election, the candidate is like the post. It has to root for itself.
- plinkplonk 17y agoIt will be interesting to see how much a story's position depends on these kind of "advertising" tactics. The explicit "asking for upvotes" tactic feels a bit sleazy to me.
- gojomo 17y agoPrevious articles have been killed when similar Twitter campaigning led to a swarm of upvotes from brand-new accounts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658620 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658620 Of course, if Chen's followers are already HN readers, that may be a salient difference.