Why are Madonna, Britney Spears, will.i.am and others in our Hacker News Circle? (opens in new tab)

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4 pointsrobertocr14y ago6 comments

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nantes14y ago· 2 in thread

I've noticed this as well. I've dealt with it by flat out banning any user or page that has nothing to do with HN. I will flat out never look at it again.

Now granted they could probably care less and I probably never would have looked anyway, but it works for me.

Terretta14y ago

Across 4000-some users? What if it's Richard Branson? Isn't he a plausible user? Only way to fix this is add code to the circle compiler that checks for the G+ ID in public comment field here. That catches on virally, and the data gets cleaned. It's been done before for other HN groupings elsewhere.

nantes14y ago

Nah, I figure Richard Branson might actually have some plausible connection, he gets to stay. Paris Hilton? No.

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robertocrOP14y ago· 1 in thread

What can be done to improve http://hngp.axxim.net/ ?

Here's the Hacker News Circle, in case you still don't have it in your circles (it's really worth it): https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts

tokenadult14y ago

Google+ says, "You've reached your daily limit for adding more circles. You can add more tomorrow." What's up with that?

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