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Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help.

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Dang, I feel like I am missing something and cannot make much sense out of your comment even after rereading it multiple times. Is this about the submission itself? Or something else? Would you be kind and expand a bit on it?

Op is new acct (5/15) with 'digital marketing exec' as occupation

What’s the point of farming karma though?

Spammers think it will help them. It doesn't.

Post history & Karma adds legitimacy. There might be a weighting effect from high-karma posters when posting or up- or down-voting other post.

There is a TON of propaganda and marking on HN though. These guys are just idiots, or are obvious dangles.

There's a ring of spammers posting things like this. It's pointless because we just ban their shit anyway. Does that answer your question?

Most surprising thing it: users on HN seem to love this "Facebook kinda content", counting the replies.

There's a bit of survivorship bias in there because a lot of such posts go nowhere. But the community does respond strongly to opportunities to personally share. The main reason it works, though, is that it's relatively uncommon. If it were a big slice of the pie people would get bored and complain.

> survivorship bias

Makes a lot of sense, thanks.

Yes, thank you. The fact that I haven't noticed it means that moderators team is doing a great job!

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