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How does HN distinguishes popular posts from voting rings? Or will it always penalize a post with too many votes in a short time span?

• tptacek 12y ago
  Not the expert, but an old-timer: It's a cat-and-mouse game between HN and the various promotional rings, so they're always going to be cagey about how it works. Generally: post content, and then trust the site to find it. Re-post later if the site misses it. Don't do other things --- like asking your friends to upvote, or circulating HN links on other sites --- to promote an HN link. Generally a good rule of thumb is that things you do to promote your STORY are probably fine, but things you do to promote AN HN LINK are virtually never fine.
  • tarruda 12y ago
    We only promote the newsletter link, not the HN discussion. Though I have been seeing some tweets(@ExplodingAds, @offeryour and others) whenever a Neovim story is posted, could these(which often contain HN discussion links) be triggering the ring detector?
    • tedunangst 12y ago
      The twitter spambots tweet about every story. And comment. And whatever.