Re:Envoy, modern visitor registration
by cyphunk on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @02:26PM
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I'm guessing the reason this topic gets any attention is because the company just secured funding. But, actually the proximity between this and that post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634) is pretty glaring. This type of subtle gaming of the system happens a lot of HN and Reddit. But here there is probably less budget to monitor and moderate.
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We watch for subtle gaming like hawks, because (a) we know the community hates it, and (b) we're part of the community. Look at my comments from yesterday alone (admittedly a big day for anti-gaming commentary):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608
Most of this is caught by software.
That's not to say that we catch all of it, of course. Also, Reddit has orders of magnitude more quantity to deal with. I imagine the challenges are different at that level, and probably a lot harder.