Comment by komali2
Hah, found it: https://bash-org-archive.com/?207373
So how did it work back in the day, people would just submit text and it would get upvoted? I always assumed like half of them were just made up.
Hah, found it: https://bash-org-archive.com/?207373
So how did it work back in the day, people would just submit text and it would get upvoted? I always assumed like half of them were just made up.
Yep, exactly that. I recall that the voting was interesting because it was just ranked on absolute number of votes, no time decay or anything, so it would take quite some time for a new contender to accumulate votes to "compete" on the leaderboard. I don't remember if there were even accounts or if anyone could just vote repeatedly, modulo some IP or cookie-based limits.
As far provenance, I assume a lot of them were made up too, but this one was real.