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If this worked reliably at these prices, it would be trivial to burn the accounts behind it: you'd just buy upvotes (cheaply, it turns out!) for a marginal story and watch who votes for it. It's most probably a scam, feeding on people who themselves hope to scam the site.
For $100 million, you can boost a post with fake upvotes.
(Hey, it could be the big break that turns into a $1B startup. And the cost to provide this service is high, since YC thrives on reputation, which this erodes.)
Now that it has a price tag, sue others for theft of service.
If you're too harsh on content heavily promoted by voting rings and content with lots of low-quality comments, posting tons of low-quality comments and making a bad attempt at a voting ring becomes an useful strategy against your competition.
The big centralized aggregators seem to be getting eaten by their own success. The way forward is likely the fediverse. Lemmy has gained a lot of traction since the reddit blackout and seems like a good alternative. Could we get enough people to move from HN?
An evergreen topic here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... If this worked reliably at these prices, it would be trivial to burn the accounts behind it: you'd just buy upvotes (cheaply, it turns out!) for a marginal story and watch who votes for it. It's most probably a scam, feeding on people who themselves hope to scam the site.
If you troll around in "New" for long enough you'll see threads where some version of this happens - though it's impossible to tell of they are bought upvotes, fake accounts made by the poster, or just friends that were asked to come and post. You'll see some mediocre SaaS thing that's posted here and on Product hunt and a bunch of comments from new users like "Wow so exciting, great job!". They usually get flagged q…