Votes are crucial. HN goes to great lengths to prevent votes that do not stem from real user intent. See this post for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/i

Votes are crucial. HN goes to great lengths to prevent votes that do not stem from real user intent. See this post for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761897 Quotes: "Voting ring detection has been one of HN's priorities for over 12 years" "I've personally spent hundreds of hours working on this"