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Ask HN: Are anyone else's HN points mysteriously increasing out of no where?

9 points by lmpdev ↗ HN
Despite not posting in several days, and none of my recent comments changing points, my points are mysteriously increasing at a steady rate

Worried bots have figured out how to game the system etc

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ggm
Time passing and upvoting by you adds to score slowly. So rate of change might be interesting, if it is non linear perhaps you could snapshot your comments posts and upvotes and see if your bot theory is visible as very old posts and comments being acted on somehow.

I just upvoted this post and your score was 819 beforehand.

muzani
Upvoted it from 820 to 820. Perhaps it's delayed and/or submission upvotes are worth a fraction.
beardyw
50% I think, but I'm not certain.
giantg2
It feels more logarithmic to me.
markus_zhang
Maybe someone upvoted one of your earlier replies. It happens.
firefax
Maybe you got better at posting? :-)