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This post set off HN's voting ring detector, but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN. (We also reverted to the HTML doc title because "Dashcube: the love child of Trello and Slack" seems a little feverish.)

All: it's not in your interests to ring-vote posts (i.e. to solicit upvotes for it). It's against the rules, incites the ring detector into demoting your story, and eventually will get your account penalized.

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I was actually quoting a journalist (David Coleman, CMSWire) whose article was quoted at the top of the Dashcube homepage. I have no idea why a voting ring detection got triggered, but it's probably because everyone who has been working on Dashcube was excited and sharing with their friends. I've been on HN for years and am not a bad actor...

Yes, it's clear from the home page that you were quoting a journalist. That's not the problem; the problem is that that title violated the HN guidelines by being linkbait. We want titles that are accurate and neutral. Happy to change it again if you want to suggest a better one.

This is fine; thanks. Sorry about that...

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