"It is sometimes hard to judge HN, because by numbers it doesn't seems that big, but by impact sometimes it surprises me." It is about the audience, who comes

"It is sometimes hard to judge HN, because by numbers it doesn't seems that big, but by impact sometimes it surprises me." It is about the audience, who comes here, to enjoy the crowd prefiltered content and comments, that is usually way higher than the average. There are quite some interesting (and rich or otherwise influential) people reading here. So if you manage to bot upvote a submission to the frontpage - it looks like the hacker spirit supports it. Powerful guerilla marketing. So I think it is not surprising, that it is tried at times, but according to dang(moderator), it happens way less, than people do expect.