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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by james33 on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @03:47PM (#7973058)
How does anything get on that list then if nobody ever sees the 1-point submission (without asking for votes).
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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by PaulHoule on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:36PM (#7973355)
exactly. that's the true terror of pagerank -- not that spammers are putting in millions of junk links, but that it makes legitimate people stop linking.
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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by bryanlarsen on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @06:29PM (#7973856)
A link gets a point every time it is submitted. So it's quite possible for a link to get more than 1 point without the link ever being seen.

Text submissions would be stuck at 1 point, though.

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