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Three votes came from /newest and the rest from the front page. The post obviously struck a nerve.

The response certainly surprised me.

High point velocity for an agreeable issue isn't too surprising. It's when there's a high point velocity for a marketing piece/bad thought piece that's suspicious.

People browsing /comments will also come to (and potentially vote on) new, active threads.

HN is completly flawn by marketing actions. This isn't new but it's now very bad...

If you have evidence of people successfully gaming HN with 'marketing actions', I'd like to see it at hn@ycombinator.com. We work hard to stop that, at least in its abusive forms such as ring-voting.

Abuse exists, of course, but people also imagine it onto everything they see on HN that they happen to dislike. Then they come to the comment threads to post unsubstantiated claims about it. That doesn't help.

Why would someone pay money to promote a complaint about reddit's redesign ?