Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes

Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by tptacek on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @03:56PM (#7973118)

You're never going to get a totally straight answer, because things like voting ring detectors rely in practice on obscurity; if you knew the exact details, it would be much easier to game the system.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by angersock on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:12PM (#7973218)

Makes it rather hard to debug or avoid posting in a bad way.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by tptacek on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:14PM (#7973229)

Yes it does. You take the good with the bad. You can always ask [email protected] about your submission; if it gets a bunch of upvotes but winds up 30 pages down the site, that's a pretty good indicator that something happened.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by angersock on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:21PM (#7973276)

Yep. I think that's just kind of an unavoidable side-effect of the service offered. It'd be interesting to know the statistics of what sort of stuff gets blocked.

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