The HN new queue is interesting because you often have a sea of articles with absolutely no votes, and then one or two articles with dozens of votes. While vote

The HN new queue is interesting because you often have a sea of articles with absolutely no votes, and then one or two articles with dozens of votes. While votes are probably power law or exponentially distributed, that skew seems a bit too extreme. When quasi-blogspam articles like this rise to the top so quickly, one has to wonder whether it’s the result of vote manipulation.