Actually, we burned ourselves with a friends and family upvote brigade on product hunt (they lopped off a bunch of them suddenly...). We learned from that and

Actually, we burned ourselves with a friends and family upvote brigade on product hunt (they lopped off a bunch of them suddenly...). We learned from that and did not do this on HN (Engineering team were then only ones to have the post shared, as they're real HN community). I think the algorithms to detect voting rings from dud accounts are not hard.