[HN Gopher] Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of ...
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       Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-10-24 06:21 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | threatofrain wrote:
       | What does HN do about these fake accounts playing some kind of
       | SEO spam game?
        
         | Loughla wrote:
         | Wow I've had see dead turned on the entire time I've been here
         | and I've never seen that happen before.
         | 
         | What's the purpose of that and why all at once now?
        
           | threatofrain wrote:
           | I have a feeling that some places give more weight to
           | outgoing links from highly reputable sites like HN. Thus
           | downvoting them into dead is not enough.
        
         | swatcoder wrote:
         | If I had to guess, it successfully blocks them some 99%+ of the
         | time, but relies on a anti-spam filter that can fail
         | independently from the rest of the site.
         | 
         | And there are probably countless bot accounts with some token
         | maturity, like not-green one here, that intermittently test the
         | status and then quickly unleash spam floods if a gap is
         | detected.
         | 
         | It's the only way to explain how little we see spam here, on a
         | extremely high-traffic, high-value site with trivial signup and
         | few _apparent_ safeguards.
        
         | perihelions wrote:
         | (For the benefit of other readers: these people are talking
         | about invisible spam comments in this thread, which are hidden
         | unless you are an HN user and have opted-in to seeing moderated
         | content on HN).
        
           | serial_dev wrote:
           | And where do I opt in? I have no idea what these comments
           | talk about and why under this post
        
             | perihelions wrote:
             | You can just click on your username in the top-right
             | corner, and choose showdead="yes" in the preferences
             | section.
        
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