Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue T…
Before HN, Refind had about 900 users (half of them very active). We just announced by email and in the product that we're on HN today.
It breaks HN's rules to solicit votes (see the FAQ), which promoting a submission often has the effect of. This often gets the submission, accounts, and/or site banned or penalized, so please avoid this. HN's software, moderation, and (as you've seen here) community are all sensitive to it.