> Is it considered white-hat to try this myself? Contact the email address on https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html https://news.ycombinator.com/security.

> Is it considered white-hat to try this myself? Contact the email address on https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html There's already algorithms in place against voting rings and similar vote behaviour. I've seen spam submissions with 50 upvotes and none was counted, the story never reached the frontpage or 2nd .. 10th page.