We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months

Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by villgax on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:09AM (#20774920)

This exactly the kind of Bot problem which another HN post was talking about, the user patwalls recently boasted on reddit/twitter about automating reddit submissions & gaining a boatload of views & is doing the same to HN with clickbait metric laden titles of obscure stuff.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by amrrs on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:52AM (#20775069)

This one ? https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708441216077825

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by varjag on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:04AM (#20775137)

Thanks. Enough grounds for flagging this submission.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by mattmanser on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:32AM (#20775263)

Why? Looks like he runs a relevant site about startups.

I don't really get the problem with him automating the submission, in fact, isn't that the hacker instinct the site is named after?

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by varjag on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:35AM (#20775274)

I don't appreciate the "throw until it sticks" hustle attitude. YMMV.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by patwalls on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:57AM (#20778893)

I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system.

I'm just one dude running a solo business and need to build automation things like that so I don't forget to post on Hacker News.

I never manipulated votes or anything like that.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by minimaxir on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:51PM (#20784003)

> So all you have to do is click that link, and it will prepopulate the Hacker News submit page with everything

> My outsourcing team, in combination with @trypigeon is trained to click that link whenever they see that email.

> And that's how I hit the front page without knowing!

https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708761136553985

And you bragged about being called out in another tweet, which doesn't feel very repentant.

Regardless, this discussion thread is guaranteed to be linked to in all of your future HN submissions that hit the front page and consequently flagged to death, so I hope it was worth it.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by abadar on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:15AM (#20774938)

If you remember the title of the post, do you mind sharing it?

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by villgax on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:25AM (#20775234)

Tweet https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708441216077825

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by vasco on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:25AM (#20775236)

If it gets upped by the community (presumably because it's interesting) what do the intentions matter?

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by probably_wrong on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:51AM (#20775354)

If you follow the link that amrrs published [1], the OP has a team that auto-upvotes all of his submissions. This is explicitly against the HN guidelines.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by Jetroid on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:17AM (#20775741)

My interpretation was that his team are pressing the 'submit' button, not anything else.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by minimaxir on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:53AM (#20778864)

Submitting a HN link with a URL that was posted recently will give it an upvote.

Per the domain submission history (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=starterstory.com), he does not employ this strategy for all submissions, likely only ones with traction to obfuscate things.

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Re:We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months by crusty511 on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:39AM (#20775291)

Is it possible to manipulate the upps?

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