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Ask Spammers: HN is an easy target, why are you bothering?

1 points by kaolinite ↗ HN
There's no captcha on anything and the site's markup is very simple. The vast majority of people on here could quickly spit out a bit of code that would spam HN; it's really not hard.

So why are you bothering?

Edit: Oh, so it seems some accounts have been hijacked too. Again, not tricky to do. Sad though that you have nothing better to do.

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jeffool
I think you kind of answered your own question there. It's a very highly rated site, as far as that goes, that's very easy to place links on. A link here that actually gets used is very valuable to the discerning-but-foolable algorithms that grade such things.
kaolinite
Not talking about the commercial spam (I can somewhat understand that) - I'm talking about the comment spam that is going on at the moment.

e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3979899 (Search for "sock puppet").

jeffool
Ahhhh, gotcha. My bad. Just very, very bored I suppose.