Comment by dang
2 years ago
You're welcome here and it looks like a good submission and a great game! but this post also got a ton of bogus upvotes and quite a few bogus comments. Those things are quite against HN's rules - this is in both the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and we ban accounts that do it (I've banned 5 of them so far.)
Please make sure that you and/or your friends don't do this on HN in the future! The community here is hypervigilant about this kind of thing and will use unkind words like 'astroturfing' and 'spamming' and email us complaints when they see it.
By the way, how does the software calculate solicited votes? Does it omit upvotes from a user on the same IP as the story creator?
Alas I can't answer that because it falls in the bucket of things that would stop working if they were public.
This is one of the (fortunately somewhat rare) cases where the principle of "optimize for curiosity" is at odds with itself!
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Sorry to hear that, but thanks anyway.
Thank you so much for bringing this up! Still new to the community (long time lurker, first time commenter). I'm very thankful for your input and I'm glad you're enjoying the submission and the game :)
From my understanding, the earlier comments on this post were all existing players - but I may be mistaken. In any case, all duly noted for us new posters. Thank you for your help in keeping the HN community so awesome!