The amount of newly created accounts under this post praising this product reeks of botting...
edit: some of those comments have now disappeared. Make of that what you want.
edit: some of those comments have now disappeared. Make of that what you want.
People who don't know HN's rules often try to "help" in this way. I try to tell everyone that it doesn't help, it hurts! but it's hard to get the word out.
(Edit: forgot to mention that the comments disappeared because HN users flagged them enough to make them [dead]. You can see [dead] comments if you want to, by turning on 'showdead' in your profile. That's also in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
I've emailed the founders to tell their friends/teammates/etc. not to do this.
I guess we can be proud that they are our users and wanted to help. There was no intent to break HN's rules. We apologize for that happening, and we have told them about the rules so it doesn't happen again.
Since the purpose of voting rings is to try to get on the front page, that construct doesn't really apply here, unless you want to call "automatic placement" a "ring".