I don't think I've seen anything expressing so much entitlement in such a compact form on HN before. > Years ago I was able to make the front page by having my

I don't think I've seen anything expressing so much entitlement in such a compact form on HN before. > Years ago I was able to make the front page by having my friends upvote an article/side project I'd post So you're using sockpuppet shills to commit the social equivalent of voter fraud to peddle your blog content. Very admirable. > I've seen these unnecessary articles about gaming the front page: have you friends use an IP proxy...has it really come to this? You just said that you use sockpuppets! > I tried...getting friends to upvote Maybe you should stop doing that. > I'm just kind of beside myself. You'd feel better if you didn't establish your sense of self worth based on getting blog posts on the front page of Hacker News. > I'm not just trying to peddle my own content Yes you are. It is literally what you are doing, and you admit to trying to subvert the voting system by engaging shills to help you do it. You wrote the teenage diary equivalent of "compressed images are smaller than uncompressed ones, news at 11", which is not interesting, substantive, or novel. I think you might be misjudging the HN audience if you expect it to hit the front page.