a single source, nothing corroborates it
Arrange ten early votes and then stop
A handful of votes in the first hour lifts a submission clear of the noise floor, and that is the whole of the seeding you need. Push further and the platforms are good enough at detection to remove the post. A weak submission gets voted back down anyway, so the small nudge changes nothing that was not going to happen.
The method
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Arrange for roughly ten upvotes inside the first hour so your post rises above the low quality noise, and stop there, because pushing the count further gets the submission removed by platforms that are good at detecting it.
What it returned
He applies this to submissions on Hacker News, Product Hunt and Reddit, and argues ten is harmless because a weak post gets voted back down anyway.
Sources
- ⭐️ The different kinds of humble businesses you can build – Jakob GreenfeldJakob Greenfeld · jakobgreenfeld.com · Full-control product vs. product for a marketplace with existing demand · 2020-07-20
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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