alt Hacker NewsHe may be on to something; I'd also think something may be odd with the voting situation. Are there voting bots or something? Because the voting situation here is extremely strange in the last few weeks; not even on reddit did I notice this and reddit voting system has tons of issues as well.
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There is on average a new submission every minute on HN. So basically an entry exposure in /newest first page is 30 minutes.
How many real people actually visit this page, browse submission, let alone consult the links, vote in earnest vs bot manipulation? Being on the front page of HN is valuable.
You can't downvote submission (or at least I can't) so low quality posts score can't even really be corrected (except flagging I guess, which sometimes feels abused but that's another problem).
Definitely
credible studies suggest 20-40% of posts and interactions on social media are bots.
why would it be different here?
the struggle is to build consensus in an open and democratic forum and we've solved that problem via LLMs.