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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!

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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.

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