Maybe related - voting rings are definitely a thing on HN. An acquaintance pinged me to upvote their blogspam once as it would help their startup, and it got en

Maybe related - voting rings are definitely a thing on HN. An acquaintance pinged me to upvote their blogspam once as it would help their startup, and it got enough from people they messaged to make the front page. Not sure how much anti fraud is on HN but that seemed too easy to me.