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Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can by chkuendig on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @06:47AM (#9333009)
One Idea would be to increase the "gravity" effect on the frontpage: If it doesn't get the expected influx of votes in a short timeframe, drop it.

Obviously still cheatable but would require more (i.e. easier to detect) votes.

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Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can by verroq on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @06:55AM (#9333041)
What a great way of penalising posts that take a long time to read.
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Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can by ledzep2 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @07:01AM (#9333060)
So maybe we should propose a new field which is the approx. time to finish reading when submitting a story.
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Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can by kardos on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @07:15AM (#9333126)
And so the cheaters would pick longer durations.
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Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can by ledzep2 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:13AM (#9333371)
This can be easily identified since other readers won't agree on this field.
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