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That is indeed how it works

But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough

Interesting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN.

Would you mind explaining to us how it works?

There was a good explanation when they published the mechanism

Great work HN team, since it’s indeed an interesting story.

I assume it was for 30 minutes in waiting with 0 votes before someone digged it out.

Mods might be amused to be described as fairly godmothers.