I wonder if this new activity of the weighting algo noticed all the rapid upvotes for new posts originating from #startups on freenode? That place is a regular

I wonder if this new activity of the weighting algo noticed all the rapid upvotes for new posts originating from #startups on freenode? That place is a regular source of 'please upvote my story here guys: <link>' even from the channel ops, two well-known HN-ers.