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dfc on April 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts ...

You can't imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting one of her submissions she had an interest in?

Or you can not imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting other submissions so that they got killed and her submission received more attention?

Estragon on April 2, 2012 [–]

I can't imagine how it would be worthwhile to go to that much technical effort for the sake of ranking on HN.

dfc on April 2, 2012 | [–]

Really? Think about the exposure a fledgling starup can get from being on page 1 for an hour or two. I think a post from malda said HNed was the new /.ed...

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