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Re:Show HN: TopStonks – The most popular stocks on /r/Wallst... by gotostatement on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:51PM (#25964840)
It's a cool idea. But if you're just using # comments, then isn't it vulnerable to pump n' dump bot activity that doesn't represent a real movement of people to a stock?

In other words, if someone uses a botnet to post a ton about a stock, that will inflate the # comments but it won't be a good signal for something actually likely to rise.

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Re:Show HN: TopStonks – The most popular stocks on /r/Wallst... by cdiamand on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:14PM (#25965342)
It is! We look at both the number of times a stock is mentioned in total, and also the number of comments that it's mentioned in. We do get some false positives but for the most part it seems like genuine chatter. We're looking into creating a blacklist for bad actors.
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