I feel really bad for you having to deal with stuff like huge voting rings and people making sockpuppet accounts but sometimes I wish you'd just keep stuff like this behind the scenes.

He's astroturfing... a thank-you note?

There's real manipulation on HN. This wasn't it. Look at the comment thread you jumped into more carefully.

This place just gets more and more frustrating. It must be 10x worse to own it, but still.

Definitely wasn't a scheme or evil plan, just my roommate who happens to be my loving girlfriend. Even so, I understand your frustration, and I'm sorry about that, Paul. Lesson learned.