Re:Tell HN: My way of doing 'community service' on HN
by hermanmerman on Thursday July 30, 2015 @01:35PM
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The checks look simple/unambiguous enough for a bot to do the work. Maybe a dual machine/human approach is the right one: a bot scans /new every 15 min for those factors, and updates a list of suspicious links/accounts, and then humans review this list and take action. Valve does something similar to detect cheaters on CS:GO by the way.
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Re:Tell HN: My way of doing 'community service' on HN
by gus_massa on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:41PM
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There are a lot of banned sites, users, ip and keywords, that autokill the submissions. The problem is that some articles are not so easy to classify. For example "5 tips to optimize your web page conversion" is probably a SEO advertisement spam, but there is a little chance that it has some interesting content and some new unknown information.
The humans check the no-autodead submissions. The amount of very good submissions is very low, so it's not necessary to filter them from the new page.