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BTW this post was #7 on HN, and then the HN gods flagged it for banishment. Not sure why...

• dang 12y ago
  It set off the ring detector. It looks like a false positive to me, so we'll turn that off. We also changed the title (from "If you use Paypal, you should know they aren't sending IPNs") to make it more neutral.
  • emilepetrone 12y ago
    Ring detector?
    • gknoy 12y ago
      A voting ring is when you submit something, and then tell a few dozen of your "friends" to vote for your submissions (and you agree to do the same for them). HN has heuristics which detect this sort of behavior, and penalizes the ranking of an article that looks like it's being voted up by a voting ring. (Disclaimer: I haven't read the HN code, and have no idea how they actually detect such things.)
    • dang 12y ago
      Sorry—a bit of local jargon. Fortunately gknoy has explained it.