HACKER Q&A
📣 CraigJPerry

Detecting Manipulation of HN Voting


I can’t believe i’m writing such tinfoil hattery but... is it conceivable that there are accounts who have reached the 500 points to unlock down-voting and are now engaged in coordinated manipulation?

Does anyone perform any analysis of correlated voting patterns on HN? Is such log data available for analysis.

  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
The moderators do check, and I've send them suspicious submissions in the past for review. Though usually for upvoting, fake commenting, astroturfing or such. If you have strong suspicion you can use the contact link in the footer.

For discussion of coordinated flagging (I don't believe that happens) follow the links in this recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23225570