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Quick question: Could they also be manipulating this message board's voting?
by rekrsiv 6mo ago
Quick question: Could they also be manipulating this message board's voting?
- dplesh 6mo agoI take it as obvious, that all message boards are swarmed with bots of different actors, might it be China, Russia, US, Israel, Turkey
- Bombthecat 6mo agoI just assume nothing is unmanipulated anymore. Companies, trolls, states etc have it way to easy now
- vrganj 6mo ago[flagged]
- tempaccount420 6mo agoPolitics are indiscriminately flagged. People don't come to HN to read politics.
- adamors 6mo agoThis is simply not true, this very submission sits comfortably on the front page, so does https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523106 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523169 Unless of course you mean "politics" as in everything you don't like is "politics".
- Bender 6mo agoIf they could get people to install a mobile UI app that fetches instructions on what to up/down-vote, what to flag/vouch then they could and unlikely anyone would notice. It is unlikely that enough people would check their up/down vote history, vouch and flag history and even then some would assume they fat-fingered such things. Such a UI could also save and upload username and password to another site. Some people use the same creds on multiple sites.
- bjacobel 6mo agoExactly such an app exists. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163 https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163
- stainablesteel 6mo agoassume this is the case on every platform
- izacus 6mo agoOnline community spam/brigading has been a normal occurrence since I've been running a message board 15 years ago. At least in Europe. Seeing a sudden flood of new messages from low use accounts around elections or referendums is normal these days.
- Imustaskforhelp 6mo agoI think a larger question to ask is if could they also be manipulating the people themselves who are reading these message boards prior to this post which later impacts such message board's voting.
- rendall 6mo agoLol. If Israel could manipulate HN do you think so many anti-Israel posts would appear on the front page, and each mitigating or nuanced comment about Israel would be flagged so quickly? No, Israel does not control or manipulate HN.
- aga98mtl 6mo ago[flagged]
- submeta 6mo agoMaybe there are lots more articles posted on HN criticising Israel, and only a fraction remains, because they win the up- and downvote war?
- rendall 6mo agoNot a single pro-Israel article, nor even any article that even mentions Israel neutrally, has ever reached the front page of HN in the entire history of HN. So, no. Israel is not "winning the up- and downvote war" of HN.
- submeta 6mo ago[flagged]
- rendall 6mo agoThe accusation is that Israel manipulates HN results. I responded that they do not because if they had been, there would surely be even one single positive article about Israel in the entire two decades of Hacker News' existence. There is not. Do please try to keep up.
- submeta 6mo ago[dead]
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