And yet it received enough votes to be on the front page, meaning enough visitors were aware of it or interested enough to spend 5 seconds investigating what it is!
Right….or you know, bots.
Sure, could be. Could even be full on HN solipsism where I’m the only real user and everyone else is a bot.
You’ve never noticed how some posts get way more upvotes than comments? Especially those introducing a product?
It is ridiculous if it is. I thought, HN was protected from such manipulations.