Ask HN: Are users like this a problem?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mquaes

by jamesbritt • 14 years ago

4 6 14 years ago

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umrashrf• 14 years ago

yeah seems like it will give algorithm a hard deal but just my opinion

drtse4• 14 years ago

Considering these comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mquaes

YES (let's call it a minor annoyance, would be worst if he posted more often).

tptacek• 14 years ago

Not officially. There are many accounts lIke this on HN.

This is a problem Wikipedia has dealt with for ages, and I like their take on it:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Single-purpose_acco...

silentscope• 14 years ago

Not as big a problem as downvoters in my opinion...

gab008• 14 years ago

Yes, in my opinion. Users like these get karma while honest opinions get downvoted by people running startups and feeling that there's a "clash" of interests between the comments here and the business they run. My 2 cents.

DanBC• 14 years ago

Yes. The poster is only posting links to their blog. That blog contains a bunch of ads. The content is only mildly interesting for HN. A single post would have been fine. Two posts a day shows -and no other comments- show the author is not interested in discussion at HN, and is just driving traffic, possibly to get ad views.

There are many articles on [new] and it's a shame that interesting articles get drowned out by this kind of low quality stuff.

Ask HN: Are users like this a problem?

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