HN has a pretty good voting ring detector. And while folks have emailed me and asked me to upvote their submissions, my response is always "I upvote things I th

HN has a pretty good voting ring detector. And while folks have emailed me and asked me to upvote their submissions, my response is always "I upvote things I think are interesting and bring something new to the discussion, period." I would gather other "high karma" individuals have similar positions.