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Ya, I avoid it as well as since its pretty clear they don't mind it being gamed since it lets them tap people's social networks [e.g. twitter followers] for tra
by opendais 12y ago
Ya, I avoid it as well as since its pretty clear they don't mind it being gamed since it lets them tap people's social networks [e.g. twitter followers] for traffic.
Its a useful growth hack for most things but for this its kinda the opposite.
- crazypyro 12y agoWell when the founder was the initial twitter spammer, its kind of hard to turn around and tell everyone not to do it without drawing criticism.
- opendais 12y agoReddit had sock puppets initially too. That doesn't mean you don't stop it once you get to a certain size to avoid losing credibility. ;) I'd saying raising 5+ million qualifies as a "certain size".
- andreasklinger 12y agoWe do a lot to filter those kind of votes. We are just not so open about it and it's not so much common knowledge. Bit longer comment from above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8427499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8427499