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Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by geraldwhen on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:31AM (#36535586)
Votes and fake engagement keeps your post on front page longer, which spurs more organic interaction.

This has been marketing 101 for at least a decade. Reddit, hacker news, any site with user content is bought and paid for.

Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by Grimburger on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:53AM (#36535953)
A warning for people that talking about and linking the reddit votes/user markets while on reddit leads to an automatic sitewide ban.

I lost 10 year old account by offhandedly mentioning it existed in a thread like this criticising the behaviour.

It's weird they don't want to talk about it but I do understand not linking it. There's mod accounts to some very big national subs up for sale.

Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by tough on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:46AM (#36537077)
Would you mind linking it here? HN seems like one of the bastions of free speech, I don't frequent reddit much but I wonder what shenanigans are up there, have seen some wild shit with even companies -stealing- subreddits from the creators lmao