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There’s no shilling here. The person who posted the link isn’t the person who wrote the blog.","comments":[{"id":49622304,"user":"sk4rekr0w","time":1788937121,"time_ago":"4 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

He is in the HN ingroup of whenever he posts a blog, a prominent HN mod or poster with 1 billion karma will inevitably post it, and so it goes.

It's sort of like the music industry.","comments":[{"id":49622345,"user":"neuroticnews25","time":1788937323,"time_ago":"4 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Does poster karma boost the post in any way?","comments":[{"id":49622369,"user":"sk4rekr0w","time":1788937453,"time_ago":"4 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I don't believe HN boosts their algo but I think people recognize posters like celebs. I recognize tosh, simonw, etc.

Also it's an easy way to farm karma. The pelican guy posted a pelican, let's upvote it? It's at least a bit of psychosis / mass effect in this.

For what it's worth, I like the pelicans but just making an observation","comments":[{"id":49622710,"user":"retsibsi","time":1788939395,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

> It's at least a bit of psychosis

I know semantic shift is inevitable, but can we put the brakes on this one at least a little? This doesn't even connect to the original meaning.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49622710"}],"comments_count":1,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49622369"}],"comments_count":2,"level":2,"url":"item?id=49622345"}],"comments_count":3,"level":1,"url":"item?id=49622304"}],"comments_count":4,"level":0,"url":"item?id=49622071"}],"comments_count":5,"url":"item?id=49622008"}

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