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Comment by minimaxir | Hacker News Reader

10 upvotes in 4 minutes is unlikely.

If you're asking people to upvote this submission, that's against HN rules and that doesn't work.

EDIT: Since this submission got unpenalized (and this comment now obsolete), the Discord page the article links to (http://discordapp.com/open-source) may be a better source.

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It's been posted in some Discord servers, which is where I come from, I don't think sharing the link with communities is forbidden, is it?

There are two reasons you might want to share the link to an HN discussion: if there is interesting discussion going on, or if you want to encourage people to upvote it.

In this case, there is no discussion about the article, just about the upvote brigade. So the only reason for sharing the link to the HN discussion would be to get people to upvote it.

Oh stop with the elitist act and maybe actually contribute to the discussion.

Yes it is. There's no reason to draw attention to a fresh HN submission other than to draw upvotes.

Unlike a company where an employee just posted an HN, the majority of people in a discord community might not even know Hacker News is a thing, nevermind knowing someone posted something interesting on it.

If it was a few hours after the submission was made, with plenty of discussion in the comments, sure. But not a few minutes after.

!remindme to check with the upvote police before sharing articles.

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