On: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web

[grhmc]

Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue

This is very gross behavior, dominikgro / Refind.

EDIT:

I'm also skeptical about these accounts:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=firmasaga1

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andreasbrenner

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=geo_O

[oxplot → grhmc]

I've seen this happen once or twice before. I think HN should have some simple algo to detect these and adjust weighting accordingly.

[dominikgro → grhmc]

Before HN, Refind had about 900 users (half of them very active). We just announced by email and in the product that we're on HN today.

[dang → dominikgro]

It breaks HN's rules to solicit votes (see the FAQ), which promoting a submission often has the effect of. This often gets the submission, accounts, and/or site banned or penalized, so please avoid this. HN's software, moderation, and (as you've seen here) community are all sensitive to it.

[mkuhn → dominikgro]

Also, as a Refind user, I recognize quite a few of these people. Definitely here because of the announcement and not fake profiles.

[andreasbrenner → dominikgro]

You don't need to be sceptical about my account :) It has been registered with Hackernews for >1 year. Many YC alumni can confirm me being real and being not Dominik (founder of refind). I know him personally, I have been a happy user of refind and when I learned there was a chance to push it on hackernews I did.

[chmars → grhmc]

I did not know that new users could upvote on HN. Interesting!