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Who are the shills on HN? ;)
by ChrisAntaki 12y ago
Who are the shills on HN? ;)
- EC1 12y agopg
- sitkack 12y agoI have watched some accounts on HN gain over 1000 karma in less than 80 days. They appear to be using machine learning techniques to pump links into the site. They made no comments for days until their karma was high enough.
- rthomas6 12y agoWell, why not name names?
- sitkack 12y agoBecause w/o damning evidence of any wrongdoing at this point I don't want to turn it into a witch hunt. Watching.
- sixQuarks 12y agoYou're like the Paul Revere of HN.
- sitkack 12y agoMore like that other guy no one can remember. ;) It is interesting to watch the ebb and flow of political opinion on discussion forums. And it would be extremely interesting to have logs of HN or Reddit to do shill and multiple account detection.
- sixQuarks 12y agoSomeone could do their PhD thesis on this. All you grad students out there - pay attention!