Ask a bunch of people to upvote? I know it's against the rules, but they're not really enforceable on a broad scale, and everyone I know who has gotten stuff to

Ask a bunch of people to upvote? I know it's against the rules, but they're not really enforceable on a broad scale, and everyone I know who has gotten stuff to the front page did ask for upvotes, and covertly, by not sharing a direct link to HN, to avoid tripping HN's referral detection mechanisms. It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma, it would be a nice platform if everyone didn't do that, but like many other things it tends to result in a defect-defect scenario.