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- tech-oriented publicists / marketers definitely do know that HN exists and matters
- there are “benign” ways to game HN, like releasing at an optimal time for readership / upvotes
- there are less nice ways, like sock puppet accounts / botting
- all of these things are certainly done regularly
- it doesn’t mean that everything you read was an astroturfed psy-op or whatever.
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- tech-oriented publicists / marketers definitely do know that HN exists and matters
- there are “benign” ways to game HN, like releasing at an optimal time for readership / upvotes
- there are less nice ways, like sock puppet accounts / botting
- all of these things are certainly done regularly
- it doesn’t mean that everything you read was an astroturfed psy-op or whatever.