Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by derefr on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @08:28PM (#8364913)

I have a running hypothesis that those particular "wow, this is receiving a lot of downvotes" comments cause upvotes to the post they're attached to. (Unless they're by the original author of the downvoted post; then they just cause snotty arguments.)

If you cared a lot about Internet Points, I'm betting keeping a sockpuppet acccount just to post "why was [master]'s post downvoted?" comments would be one of the highest-ROI things you could do to get more of them.

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by stormbrew on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:44PM (#8365124)

Yeah, I had considered this, but I can't imagine the effect continuing beyond the un-greying of the parent post. I can see it rallying to that point, though.

I should also note that I've seen a lot of early-greyed posts come back from the dead after 30 minutes or so even without the "omgwtfisgoingon" posts underneath them as well. Sometimes even becoming clear winners on their strata of the post's comments.

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