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Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by pleaselegalize on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:44AM (#36535777)
I worked for a YC company called Anima App [1] that begged us through multiple @here pings to "boost" their posts on HN, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc... It never really worked on HN, the posts would just get buried, but it did kinda work on Reddit.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/anima-app

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Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by svnt on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:53AM (#36535943)
> 'Design to Code' Startup Anima Raises $2.5 Million in Seed Funding Dec 22, 2022

> Anima, a no-code tool that turns designs into code, raises $10 million Series A • TechCrunch Sep 01, 2021

> Seed

Strangest spelling of bridge I’ve ever seen

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Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by cmcaleer on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:46AM (#36535825)
I wish I could dismiss this with a snarky comment but it’s probably a worthwhile spend of ~2 minutes of everyone’s time in terms of return.
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Re:Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News by version_five on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:03AM (#36536135)
Iirc HN has some kind if detection for suspect upvotes - I could guess at algorithms for that, but for obvious reasons I doubt they would share specifically how they do it. It would be a fun data science project to look at the distributions of votes as they come in on stories.
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