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Alternative: if several accounts submit the same post, they each count as a +1. The OP could have a bunch of friends that submit the link at the same time, perh
by probably_wrong 6y ago
Alternative: if several accounts submit the same post, they each count as a +1. The OP could have a bunch of friends that submit the link at the same time, perhaps when he tweets it.
At least one other user admitted to it in an old post that made it to the front-page.
- minimaxir 6y agoNormally yes, but in this case there actually isn't a link! The OP resubmitted with the correct link, which also got a suspicious amount of upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899816
- jjgreen 6y agoAt least those 16 people actually got through to the article in the end ...