Your own comments can boost your popularity score and get you to the front page of pop.
Even if you didn't count OP's comments, you still have an easy exploit for shills with two accounts, which we've already seen before with hans.
Pop should only consider unique commenters in scoring, not # of comments.
edit: https://poal.co/all/pop
And people can block those who are cheating.
Since we have now more resources, we are considering a little increase.
Those who will try to game the algorithm will always lose. The only thing they are wasting is their time.
Don't block me I only cheated for science!
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