Comment by lysace
Insipid text.
Also: HN needs to upgrade its bot upvoting detection tech. This is embarrassing. It was proper ownage of the HN #1 position for like 15 minutes straight. And then like #2-3 for an hour or so.
Insipid text.
Also: HN needs to upgrade its bot upvoting detection tech. This is embarrassing. It was proper ownage of the HN #1 position for like 15 minutes straight. And then like #2-3 for an hour or so.
They don't care what gets ranked where other than their own recruitment and other submissions, for which this site exists.
I don’t think this holds up to higher order thinking. On the surface, sure that makes sense.
But then who left to look at the recruitment ads if the quality of the content, comments, and community degrades enough that everyone stops coming?
All I know is that pretty much nobody here knows enough about the whole picture to have a meaningfully informed opinion. So a lot of these opinions are going to be driven by their imagination of the whole picture.
The rules are pretty clear that you should not do this.
Off topic, but I do feel like there is a significant number of things that mysteriously get to frontpage with 12-40 upvotes, zero comments, and then sit there getting no more upvotes / comments for like 20 minutes.
Personally I agree that it's both possible to detect this better and would actually drastically improve the quality of this site if that wasn't the meta and think it's something that should be openly discussed (in terms of practical suggestions).