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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 [deleted] »

reitanqild wrote: post #64
butwhy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much compute power do you need to add an email address to a database?

I guess this would be a good example of the "gratuitous negativity" that was on the frontpage the last few days? While there seems to be something funny going on it is most likely something more than just adding an email address to a database. When I was younger this was how I though. After maintaining and interfacing a few applications over the last few years I am a whole lot less annoying I hope.

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Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by TeMPOraL »

> The upvotes is like fuel to lift your position and the time since submission is like gravity to pull you down. To get on frontpage, you have to get as many upvotes as possible shortly after submission. And to keep your place, you have to get upvotes continuously.

> Getting on the front page is too random.

So in other words, getting to the front page is hard because you don't know your delta-V and TWR before launch, and the cheaters are the ones who are able to secure an estimate for those parameters.

#ObscureSpaceflightReference

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by adieu »

Sealy wrote: post #55
mrmondo wrote: post #48

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Australia - you could contact Cloudflare and let them know - they can shuffle the CDN if there is a dodgy node.

If you log into your Cloudflare you can perform a full cache flush very easily on your domain.

Maybe it's not cache that caused the problem. We host our website on Google Appengine which is global balanced. Maybe some cloudflare nodes just pick the wrong entrance.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by Gustomaximus »

pajju wrote: post #78
pajju wrote: post #20

Good that someone raised this topic. 1. Many good articles & posts don't get upvoted. 2. There are pre-formed HN groups who game the system often. My Feedback 1. Some special users can be given special Front-Page-Post Button permission. Say, 3 Top Users have voted this Post for FP(Front Page) 2. Frontpage should not be the highlighting part of HN. At least it looks like that as of now. The other good parts of HN: new…

Additional feedback: 5. Use of better colors: For following keywords or topics & colors for users by active | top | influencers etc. 6. Verified accounts. 7. Use of on Demand Badges like: Trustworthy User Badge, Looking for(Badge), Looking for co-founder, Hiring, Remote jobs etc. All these can be grouped under a Paid plan? I would definitely pay for value & additionals, even a good mobile app experience is missing. 8…

With 5. I'd be inclined not to colour influencers or other user accounts. I'd be concerned it would exacerbate hivemind as 'these are the opinions I should upvote and follow'. I like in HN that I typically read a comment before I note someones username on this vs reddit type interface where the username is highlighted.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by reitanqild »

[deleted] wrote: post #81
reitanqild wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess this would be a good example of the "gratuitous negativity" that was on the frontpage the last few days? While there seems to be something funny going on it is most likely something more than just adding an email address to a database. When I was younger this was how I though. After maintaining and interfacing a few applications over the last few years I am a whole lot less annoying I hope.

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I guessed they were planning to use the github integration for something. Then I might be wrong and it might just be "cool, new feature, must have" but whatever the reason was I didn't question anyones intellect over it.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by adieu »

butwhy wrote: post #58
adieu wrote: post #45

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hmm...I'm running out of ideas. Which country are you in?

How much compute power do you need to add an email address to a database?

Sorry about that. Could you drop us an email at hi@porter.io with your GitHub account? We could manually add you to the list. We're trying to debug the problem. But it's hard to reproduce it since it only affects few people.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by sudioStudio64 »

I was always suspicious of the LISP articles. Just kidding.

I think that the lack of down votes for normal people means that you end up seeing a lot of support for some things that are popular with the people who CAN down vote.

Maybe I've got it wrong, but it seems that way.

Re: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

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Post by frik »

jfroma wrote: post #41

I'm relatively new to HN and I dont understand how your article gets to the FP, I don't know if is the upvotes, karma, comments, etc. I had a submission for three days in the FP and that was the only time I didn't ask any friend to upvote me over IM.

There are certain algorithms in place to prevent unwanted spam, in your case: voting ring detection
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