[Uptrenda]

tbh i feel like many posts on HN shouldn't make it to the front-page. HN is filled with smart people with tech skills and I have a feeling many of them are gaming the algorithm for self-promotion. Even just getting your friends to upvote something is kind of disingenuous since it bias what should be more objective and we know that people do tend to follow others (social proof.) I don't have a solution. This is symptomatic of quite deep and complex issues. maybe someone will solve this one day.

[getmeinrn]

>maybe someone will solve this

It's solved by you going to the new page, reading every submission, and upvoting the interesting ones. Incentivize that.

[anonzzzies]

This feeling why I stopped using my real name (on most sites, not only hear). Upvotes or downvotes don’t mean anything to me as I have nothing to sell to you, not even myself. It’s at least far more relaxed for myself to not have to worry about things that don’t mean anything anyway, like upvotes, downvotes or some flamewar someone wants to start about a tiny opinion of mine; I can just get up/downvoted and move on. Don’t have to be pc either because of fearing for my job if my boss reads something.

People, definitely on reddit, are behaving very different as they see they talk to someone who has nothing to lose and where they cannot expect much in return; less warmongering, less dragging on about a subject I was done with 40 comments ago and only 1-2 downvotes max where people commenting a similar opinion under a known name or handle get 50.

For me a solution to try is random usernames and changing those when you get doxxed. Nicknames or the same handles across sites won’t work.