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0 pointsmooreds1mo ago0 comments

haha, no worries.

> what are you submission habits? Do you just submit links you find interesting often?

Pretty much. I will often email myself links I think might be interesting, then batch up submissions. I also like to highlight friends' posts.

> And does the karma rewards factor into your routine submissions?

It's always fun to get karma, but I like the fact I can call attention to someone or something that deserves it more.

I also wrote and talked about my thoughts on HN and how to be a good community member a bit more:

- in this blog post: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3530

- in this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrObxK-J_3I

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solaire_oa1mo ago

Darn, I really thought submission rates were the lowest hanging fruit for bot detection, and it doesn't appear this is the case.

Thanks for commenting so I could see this.

For what it's worth, penalizing submission rates is not the default in the plugin itself, that's just for the demo. And also, in my testing, HN at large has "high trust" practically everywhere. My own account is consistently one of the lowest scoring that I come across, ironically. So perhaps this plugin isn't as useful as I had hoped.

mooredsOP1mo ago

Hmmm. No data here, just heuristics from my time on HN, but if I were looking for bot accounts, I'd look for:

* a large percentage of posts from the same domain

* a large number of flagged posts

There are also some domains that show up when you are logged in and submit them and don't show up if you view the page anonymously (the entire domain has been added to the killfile). dev.to is one of these.

Submissions of those domains might be automated.

Good luck!

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