Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
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Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
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Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#2No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#3You can buy literally any platforms equivalent of upvotes. What's special about this?
Any sufficiently large site will have to deal with bad actors and bots, HN is no different. HN has not been a small site for 3-4 years now.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#4No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
I doubt this is being used for comments. Hitting the front page of hn with a blog post or product launch is quite valuable - that's what people will be paying for.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#5So the comments can't be trusted much anymore...
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#6that's not surprising to me. the show HN feature might bring a product out of obscurity if it hits the front page, so there's certainly an incentive.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#7It appears the last bastion of free discourse is no longer free. Maybe I’ve been disillusioned all this time but, I’ve always felt HN to be of quality.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#8No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
It's not for your comments. It's to promote a post for something that you think will earn you money (or something) if it gets a lot of traffic from HN.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#9No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
It's pretty obvious the benefit that a poster would get from upvotes. It doesn't take many to reach the frontpage and it's a guaranteed massive increase in traffic to your product.
At $40 for 50 upvotes it's hard to NOT buy upvotes for a small company trying to acquire customers.
Re: Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
#10It appears the last bastion of free discourse is no longer free. Maybe I’ve been disillusioned all this time but, I’ve always felt HN to be of quality.
This has been going on for quite a long time. It's just getting worse and worse to the point where more people notice.