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50 pointsandreimarinescu3y ago3 comments

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dang3y ago· 2 in thread

Promotional upvoting and commenting are against HN's rules. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. They're also considered spamming by this community.

We ban accounts that do this.

I've killed most of the comments now.

permo-w3y ago

this is a weirdly incompetent attempt. if you’re gonna go to the effort of making x different accounts to promote a post, why not go to the slight extra effort of giving them even remotely convincing comments?

dang3y ago

It happens surprisingly often, just like this. I think it's usually people who are coming from so far outside the community that they have no idea of its conventions. Weird spam or SEO tricks sometimes seem to be in the mix too.

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