Hmmm... I'm not sure exactly how the voting ring stuff works, but I've heard that people can get tripped up by asking large numbers of, say, Twitter followers,

Hmmm... I'm not sure exactly how the voting ring stuff works, but I've heard that people can get tripped up by asking large numbers of, say, Twitter followers, to upvote them. Yup, it happened to Yegg recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203599 I think it would be wrong to rush to judgment and conclude that "HN is racist" I agree, notwithstanding my previous point.