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HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by Joona »

So how do you fix it? I don't really see another way to rank large amounts of stories other than points. Sure, you can try to detect cheating, but you want a minimal amount of false positives, too.

Edit: missing word

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by chkuendig »

Joona wrote: post #4

So how do you fix it? I don't really see another way to rank large amounts of stories other than points. Sure, you can try to detect cheating, but you want a minimal amount of false positives, too. Edit: missing word

One Idea would be to increase the "gravity" effect on the frontpage: If it doesn't get the expected influx of votes in a short timeframe, drop it.

Obviously still cheatable but would require more (i.e. easier to detect) votes.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by jsnell »

The mysterious case is probably manual moderator intervention to re-surface good articles that got lost in /newest. So basically a one-time 5 point boost (just to the article score, not to submitter karma), enough to give it a second chance on the front page for half an hour or so.

(I might be wrong on this, but it definitely should not be taken as a sign of cheating. It happens way to often, with links that have no obvious commercial motive).

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