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Blindly submitting content to HN, good or bad?

I've noticed an account that's submitting 80+ stories a day all from generally liked sites.

I think it's bad, at the least it automatically pushes everyone else a 1/2 a dozen spots further down when another batch is dumped making it that much more unlikely someone else has a fair chance. It also reminds me of digg's 'power users' where a handful of people ended up dominating the site, this isn't happening right now but when you're submitting 10% of stories the front page will reflect that eventually.

But on the other hand some of the submissions would have been made regardless by other people.

Thoughts?

54 points benologist 15 years ago 44 comments

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