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A comment on Mining Product Hunt, Part 1: Detecting Vote-Rings.

Re:Mining Product Hunt, Part 1: Detecting Vote-Rings by jtokoph on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:55PM (#9930806)
"We removed users’ names to protect the innocent. Instead, we’re showing random fruit names prepended to the real users’ ids."

Can't someone just go lookup the IDs to get real names?

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Re:Mining Product Hunt, Part 1: Detecting Vote-Rings by ANaimi on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @01:07PM (#9930883)
Yeah... but the purpose of the post is to explain the methodology not to point fingers. We kept the IDs because they are useful to demonstrate whether users created those accounts consecutively. Product Hunt's public API can be used to find the real names and even expand this method further.
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