So are you proposing that Hacker News, a website that regularly covers startups with millions of dollars of investor money, has chosen to fake upvotes to shill

So are you proposing that Hacker News, a website that regularly covers startups with millions of dollars of investor money, has chosen to fake upvotes to shill for an ultra-niche one-man tabletop game? Or are you saying that HN is somehow able to detect and deflect vote manipulation for the former but not the latter? 'Cause I think "HN readers are into cryptography/security and tabletop RPGs" is a way more likely theory than either of those.