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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by ghayes on Monday August 25, 2014 @08:47PM (#8225089)
This is generally where big data helps. Your click is one signal among thousands of impressions / clicks. A single user's clicks shouldn't have a large impact in the aggregate.
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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by yanowitz on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:26PM (#8225219)
I think the argument is that bot-nets can appear to be 1000s of legitimate users and you can use this to undermine competitors.
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