https://barnacl.es/s/bwd2dt/please_upvote_the_show_hn_on_bar...
:( C'mon, aside from being uncool, doing this is likely to get the post automatically removed from the front page.
:( C'mon, aside from being uncool, doing this is likely to get the post automatically removed from the front page.
> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?
> No. Users should vote for a story because it's intellectually interesting, not because someone is promoting it.
It's removed.
It would be distasteful if incentives were offered in exchange for up-votes...but as it is, everyone's free to do as they please.
It sucks that someone created an awesome site and then decided to ask for upvotes, but it's not ok to do that.
Political campaigning.
What's worse, I believe that clicking one of those little triangle icons is literally equivalent to direct vote manipulation.