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There's extra weight to comments and how fast the upvotes are. If all votes are instant it'll go higher than votes over a longer period.



This is not great. I know there are controls in place to stop chain voting, but if it only takes 5 votes in 5 minutes to reach number 1 then the system is wide open to abuse.


Most systems are vulnerable if you poke around a bit. In my experience the HN voting ring detector is pretty wily.


That I agree with :)

The problem is that no system can detect signal in five votes. The numbers are just too small to be significant.




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