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by ramanujan 5751 days ago
How did this obvious troll make it to the front page of Hacker News? And why is anyone taking this seriously? The post is almost incoherent.

pg might want to investigate how exactly an account created 3 hours ago got 25 votes for such a bizarre Time-Cube-ish link.
2 comments
jacquesm 5751 days ago
Hard to tell right now, 25 upvotes is quite a bit, but all it really takes is about 4 or so in the first couple of minutes for anything at all to get a bunch more upvotes, I've seen that often enough. If it had a bunch of upvotes in two minutes or so that would be definitely suspect. Even PGs posts don't go that fast, so that's a good indicator something is fishy.

The http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) seems to be an SEO spam site, so you're probably right.

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Mini-WWW 5751 days ago
Hey, jacquesm, honestly, - have you EVER VISITED the http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) you mentioned so angry? Does it look like a spam site full of ads? Absolutely not! The spam is to tell people you don't know for sure!
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jacquesm 5751 days ago
> have you EVER VISITED the http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) you mentioned so angry?

Actually, yes, I looked at it before I wrote that.

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shortformblog 5751 days ago
I think he's saying that the way you keep repeating "iPad" on that page is very spammy and seems to be designed to game SEO.

Also, your site needs something. It looks kind of drab. Have you ever considered throwing some AdMob ads on there? :P

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Mini-WWW 5751 days ago
Ramanujan, you would be surprised even more if I tell you that during last 2 hours I even wasn't online: my Internet provider had some problems and cut off Internet for me during recent hours.
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