Fair enough, thanks John. For what it's worth - I don't have a voting ring of 40/50 people (that I'm aware of :-) ) I don't think the post would have been fl

Fair enough, thanks John. For what it's worth - I don't have a voting ring of 40/50 people (that I'm aware of :-) ) I don't think the post would have been flagged. I can't control people voting by direct link, as another commenter alluded to, there are twitter accounts with tens of thousands of followers that tweet direct links. Maybe they're accidentally triggering this, which would be unfortunate. Re: me submitting my own posts, it's just a matter of ritual really. I write a post, then publish, tweet, HN, Facebook it all at the same time. I also dislike when others submit my posts with terrible titles like "Marketers, this is a good article" or "Read this post about emails". Thanks for your time John.