Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others

Re:Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others by johnisgood on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:08AM (#44766265)

The major problem is that I could up-vote and down-vote as many times as I want. It is rate-limited, however[1]. I know, because I wrote a script. :D Seems like someone else did, too, except to down-vote.

Please fix it.

Edit: these down-votes are going down by the 100s or so, someone is really bullish to have "RiverToSea" fish down-voted. Ironically, the "RiverToSea" fish was made by someone who named himself "f**k palestine".

[1] After refresh, you can continue voting till you reach the limit, which is problematic.

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Re:Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others by needleballista on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:04AM (#44766927)

I've always thought it was MORE democratic that if you really like a fish you should be able to upvote it more than if you just kind of like it -- same with downvoting.

If you have an anonymous user, you can register their userId. So someone did that with the palestine fish, hence the username. I knowingly added this vuln to the design bc there's very little someone can gain from registering claiming an account for the fish and the stakes for a fish website are pretty low IMO.

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Re:Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others by johnisgood on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:38AM (#44767113)

You may potentially be able to learn a lot from being able to successfully fight against people doing automated voting ad infinitum. :D

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