When a few readers collectively had the poor judgement to vote a post I wrote to the front page it brought in around 12k uniques from HN and associated parasiti

When a few readers collectively had the poor judgement to vote a post I wrote to the front page it brought in around 12k uniques from HN and associated parasitic sites over the space of 6 hours or so. This was peaking around 200 - 250 simultaneous visitors.