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Fake upvotes and comments are a bad idea on Hacker News. They will probably get your post demoted and your and your friends' accounts penalized.

It sucks to see people sink their own hard work with these tactics. Please, everybody, just let your work speak for itself.

We took the penalty off the post in this case because we want to see original work on HN.

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How can you determine when friends and family are upvoting posts?

After some investigation:

mootothemaxx = spotco (see email listed on github page: http://imgur.com/vepCH7O.jpg)

xxxxx0 = https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxxxx0 = account created 757 days ago, no submissions/comments;

OP = https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spotco = account created 757 days ago.

While that does appear unlikely and suspicious. Does that necessarily prove they are same? Maybe multiple friends found hacker news same day. I rarely login vote or interact but I have lots of old rarely used accounts on different sites.

How do you determine who upvoted?

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