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4 points by fswwi ↗ HN
It seems nobody pays attention to 1 point news here and news from the main page are initially upvoted by bots (to get to there). So I've written a short userscript for this site to highlight all "1 point" entries:

    [...document.querySelectorAll(".score")].filter(x => x.innerText == "1 point").map(x => x.closest("tr").previousSibling.querySelector(".storylink")).forEach(x => x.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9")

6 comments

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quickthrower2
I just click “new” and upvote there anything that is good
aww_dang
Can you show some examples of bot manipulation?
fswwi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891532 -- 33 points, no comments.
gus_massa
Nah. It's just a nerdsniping[1] article. It will get a ton of votes. Also, many good articles don't get a lot of comments.

[1] https://xkcd.com/356/

fswwi
There's a lot of such "nerdsniping" articles here but they have only 1 point.
gus_massa
If you upvote them, they will have 2 points! Please visit the newest page.

Some good articles get no upvotes due to bad luck. Some are reposted and the repost get more traction. Sometimes another source cover the same event and get traction here.

From time to time there are attempts to use bots/sockpuppets/meatpuppets/shills/whatever. Most of the time the system detect the attempt, or the users detect it and flag the article or write mean comments (not very mean because dang may ban your account if you write mean comments).