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Ring detector?
by emilepetrone 12y ago
Ring detector?
- gknoy 12y agoA voting ring is when you submit something, and then tell a few dozen of your "friends" to vote for your submissions (and you agree to do the same for them). HN has heuristics which detect this sort of behavior, and penalizes the ranking of an article that looks like it's being voted up by a voting ring. (Disclaimer: I haven't read the HN code, and have no idea how they actually detect such things.)
- dang 12y agoSorry—a bit of local jargon. Fortunately gknoy has explained it.