On: Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think

[chrisbaker98]

By whom?

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Dang and co. You can read his comment history for explanations if you're curious, using https://hn.algolia.com/ to search.

It's not nefarious as is implied here, but it's not totally "organic".

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The HN Algorithm, Dang, PG, and the HN users.

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If you include software, mods, and community, that's the totality of the system, in which case I don't think you can call it manipulation; can the system manipulate itself? But it's not clear to me what the GP meant by that word.