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I have to ask: is it just me, or are those upvotes on the frontpage faked?

by brandonhsiao 13y ago

presty 13y ago
most probably he should've faked/imported some comments too, if he wanted to seem more legit
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  That's not easy! But you're right, it probably needs to be done.
leobelle 13y ago
My thoughts. lobste.rs is the only really remotely viable alternative to HN and it doesn't have near that many upvotes for items on the front page, but it has some discussion.
iuguy 13y ago
There's articles with 40+ votes and no comments. That doesn't seem quite right to me.
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  I just lowered the random karma value for new auto-submitted stories. The majority of the website is currently populated by me, the site's creator, but that will stop once it gains a large enough userbase to sustain regular submission rate. Thank you for taking a look! (I created cryptanalys.is)
KMag 13y ago
They don't even seem to have been seeded with faked values, but rather pinned to fake values. I upvoted one article and downvoted another, and several minutes later the scores remain unchanged. I can see the upside to manually tweaking the votes until you get critical mass, but pinning the votes to faked values makes the transition more difficult than just seeding with fake values and letting the community adjust from there.
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  The reason your upvote remained unchanged is that anybody with 10 karma points or less bears no weight on the voting algorithms. I'm experimenting with having higher karma-valued posters have more weight when it comes to voting. Was that you who registered as KMag? You now have 100 karma and your votes will be counted from now on.
GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Creator here. The upvotes on the frontpage are indeed faked. It's quite obvious I'm sure to the HN crowd. Please accept my apologies. I posted the site originally with just a few articles and nobody even gave it a single upvote on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 I assumed it was due to the fact that "nobody wants to start a conversation with themselves" so I tried to make the site look a bit more used.

I have to ask: is it just me, or are those upvotes on the frontpage faked?

presty 13y ago

most probably he should've faked/imported some comments too, if he wanted to seem more legit

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
That's not easy! But you're right, it probably needs to be done.

leobelle 13y ago

My thoughts. lobste.rs is the only really remotely viable alternative to HN and it doesn't have near that many upvotes for items on the front page, but it has some discussion.

iuguy 13y ago

There's articles with 40+ votes and no comments. That doesn't seem quite right to me.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
I just lowered the random karma value for new auto-submitted stories. The majority of the website is currently populated by me, the site's creator, but that will stop once it gains a large enough userbase to sustain regular submission rate. Thank you for taking a look! (I created cryptanalys.is)

KMag 13y ago

They don't even seem to have been seeded with faked values, but rather pinned to fake values. I upvoted one article and downvoted another, and several minutes later the scores remain unchanged. I can see the upside to manually tweaking the votes until you get critical mass, but pinning the votes to faked values makes the transition more difficult than just seeding with fake values and letting the community adjust from there.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
The reason your upvote remained unchanged is that anybody with 10 karma points or less bears no weight on the voting algorithms. I'm experimenting with having higher karma-valued posters have more weight when it comes to voting. Was that you who registered as KMag? You now have 100 karma and your votes will be counted from now on.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago

Creator here. The upvotes on the frontpage are indeed faked. It's quite obvious I'm sure to the HN crowd. Please accept my apologies. I posted the site originally with just a few articles and nobody even gave it a single upvote on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368 I assumed it was due to the fact that "nobody wants to start a conversation with themselves" so I tried to make the site look a bit more used.