How to game hackernews?.. or NOT

Posted by anikendra on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:25AM
from the blog.viraliti.com dept.

http://blog.viraliti.com/how-we-got-on-frontpage-of-hacker-news-with-ease/

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Re: How to game hackernews?.. or NOT by smalter on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:50AM (#4688640)

I think the answer to this question is "not". The "gamed" post was flagged and killed.

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Re: How to game hackernews?.. or NOT by anikendra on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:58AM (#4688676)

I totally agree with you!! but the point is that you can hack your way to the homepage.. the moderators need to work on it.. and thats our point

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Re: How to game hackernews?.. or NOT by adsahay on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:40AM (#4688584)

> We would like to conclude the post saying that it was not a marketing gimmick from our end. Being hackers ourselves, we just wanted to check if HN algo was vulnerable to such tricks.

Ok does anyone buy this?

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Re: How to game hackernews?.. or NOT by anikendra on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:45AM (#4688609)

I understand y people might be annoyed with it.. but the point is we were trying this trick and if we actually were scammers i would continue doing that and generating traffic.

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Re: How to game hackernews?.. or NOT by arikrak on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @12:07PM (#4688715)

How did this get to front page? Hmm...

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