Wouldn't it be funny if you added an RSS entry that linked to an otherwise unpublished page with the url path /i-am-a-bot-that-posts-to-hackernews with a matching title to go?

Looks like that worked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673881

Haha that's brilliant! Nice touch with the recursive link.

> Yes, there's definitely a script at work.

Presumably to farm karma for some other purpose.

I once observed that everything that shows up here eventually shows up in a particular cluster of subreddits and vice versa. Usually with a lag of 24-48 hours.

I half-jokingly floated the idea that one could write a karma arbitrageur bot which cross posts between HN and those subreddits.

I was told that I would be banned. Not just the bot: me.