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populist1 year, 3 months ago
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600+ reads with just 5 votes in less than two hours. Wow.
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I'm gonna go read another post 3000 times because it's so great!
(by the way, Beau, that's no indictment of you. I always enjoy your submissions. It's just that there's definitely been a concerted effort by some people on here to manipulate the stories on the front page by artificially increasing the "reads" on an article)-
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populist1 year, 3 months ago
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A read is how many times the page here on propeller has been loaded. It sems to me that people are able to re-load it over and over....and over, and drive that number up. I'm not sure how much that affects the points on an article, but it's clear to me that it does drive it up considerably.
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One of my submissions yesterday had 600 reads in just a couple hours (with like only 4 props), and was on the home page shortly after. Then, unsurprisingly, it got less than 1000 additional reads in the next 15 hours.
I've sent feedback to propeller regarding this kind of activity on my submissions and many others. I'm confident from their reply that it'll get fixed, but sooner is always better.
to me, the site will be much better if it's the community as a whole that determines what's popular and what's not - and not the the initiative of a few spammers.
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ind061 year, 3 months ago
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To increase the reads you hit refresh. Try it, increase the reads on any post you choose by five or ten or twenty, it'll take you about two or three minutes.
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Votes are the most heavily counted part of the overall "score" a post receives, but a simply massive number of reads will push the numbers up as well, and, if you're dishonest, with time on your hands.
As is apparently the case for some,
You can artificially promote a post to the home page.
The only conceivable way I can see a post getting four votes and a thousand reads is if the post had some hum-dinger grab 'em by the shorties title but the article was a total piece of garbage, indicating the poster had disappointed 996 readers.
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lfergie8121 year, 3 months ago
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Populist said
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"there's definitely been a concerted effort by some people on here to manipulate the stories on the front page by artificially increasing the "reads" on an article)"
That's how AG and her gang get their stories on the front page. They send out messages to their shills and (drum roll please) ka da they're on the front page. LMAO-
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ind061 year, 3 months ago
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I'd don't think so.
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I disagree with the politics of many of her posts but I've never seen one early on with a lopsided read / prop count. A normal read / prop count would actually be about 30 to 50 props and 200-400 reads. It has to be REALLY lopsided to indicate foul play and I've never seen that with one of Alpha's posts.
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