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		torbair on July 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mining Product Hunt, Part 1: Detecting Vote-Rings It's just another marketing platform, right? Nothing really "crowdsourced" about it. We dealt with similar voting ring issues when I worked on another industry forum, but people were really not subtle about it, even when it was explicitly discouraged. Sort of mindblowing, actually.

torbair on July 22, 2015 [–]

And by unsubtle, I mean all the accounts had the same prefix and similar profile pictures.

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