Suddenly lots of spam on HN?

5 points·mattkrea··10 comments

Just noticing this tonight. Are there lots of spam submissions happening or is this normal and I just don't see it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680032

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Looks like those links have been taken down so your post essentially lacks context.

I was curious to see what those submissions were

Glad to see that. It really wasn't that much but it was no different than you see on most blogs nowadays.

I haven't been on HN that long but I was still shocked to see it.

If you turn on "Show Dead" in your profile and look a the Newest page, you'll get an idea of the volume. I try to go through and flag for spam every time I submit something.

I'd estimate that usually about 20 out of the first 100 posts are already dead, and I flag 2 or 3 more. I'm not sure how much of this is automatic and how much other users.

(Glancing now, it seems to be considerably fewer. It varies quite a bit over time, and I might be remembering the highs more than the average)

How can we report? Like "BR" style: "I report U"

I believe those with high karma can flag submissions

We can & do. Yes, this is a lot.

Yep, the threshold is something around 250 points, iirc. I wonder what threshold the downvote ability carries at the moment.

I think I recently saw something mentioning that it was at 100

100? Can't be. I'm at 314 at the moment and cannot downvote, yet I can flag posts...

http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/ says the current limit is 500, with about 11% of users having downvote privs.

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