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I tend to flag any article that is about analyzing, optimizing, or gaming Hacker News.

It's just a website for people to talk to each other and share links. Trying to out-think the algorithms is, to me, a smell for cynical PR or at best misplaced priorities.

>>snowwr+(OP)
Yeah whatever you do, don't let us read anything about anyone out-thinking our algorithms.

The algorithms will save us. Over optimization is the root of all evil. Smart people are dangerous.

>>snowwr+(OP)
I've often wondered about the possibility of gaming HN through it's participants. For example, pre-emptively down-voting yourself from a second account early on in a busy article, possibly with a reply using that second account noting you don't know why anyone would feel the need to down-vote that...