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Re: by chrisbaker98 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:59PM (#34017829)
By whom?
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Re: by SpeedilyDamage on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:08PM (#34017939)
Dang and co. You can read his comment history for explanations if you're curious, using https://hn.algolia.com/ to search.

It's not nefarious as is implied here, but it's not totally "organic".

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Re: by BetaDeltaAlpha on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:09PM (#34017961)
The HN Algorithm, Dang, PG, and the HN users.
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Re: by dang on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:22PM (#34031845)
If you include software, mods, and community, that's the totality of the system, in which case I don't think you can call it manipulation; can the system manipulate itself? But it's not clear to me what the GP meant by that word.
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