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It's OK while it is sensible (after all, you will inform your friends you have published a new blog post or whatever) and not some heavy "please upvote" campaign.
I completely agree with that. But it seems that his "supporters" were invited at waves to give his post a boost.
This could be ok if he was doing an experiment about HN. These tricks of asking your buddies to upvote and retweet seems against the spirit of HN. I would be interested to see what the other HNers think.
It's OK while it is sensible (after all, you will inform your friends you have published a new blog post or whatever) and not some heavy "please upvote" campaign.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's OK while it is sensible (after all, you will inform your friends you have published a new blog post or whatever) and not some heavy "please upvote" campaign.
My read was that it's just a conversation about a previous post that made it to the homepage, and not an attempt to game the system.
For people not aware of that site that want to see the content, just scroll up to the top in the list of what looks like comments. After 4 visits, and clicking in some places i finally got it... I must be dumb or something.
I must be dumb or something. I think they just have a poorly designed site.