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A comment on Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how do I make my site known?.

Re:Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how d... by kohanz on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:09PM (#13601554)
You're basically asking: how do I do successful marketing, right? I don't have the answer to that, but I'd presume that despite many flashy resources out there claiming otherwise, there is no secret sauce, you have to put in the work of advertising (and finding out which channels work best for you), and of course the very important SEO.

By the way, I used your site and had a decent experience. I'm not a typical user of these, but it was interesting. You mentioned that other sites allow trolls to flood in - how do you prevent that?

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Re:Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how d... by garagol on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:59PM (#13602567)
I made three different algorithms dealing with spamming messages, spamming reports (repoting people unfairly), and when to ban someone depending on the reports gotten.

Contrary to most sites which do nothing (as to get the traffic from the trolls anyway), if someone is being intrusive, I ban him for a limited time, or the after two times, permanentely.

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