This post was penalized by the voting ring detector, but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN and because there's a genuine discussion here.
All: please don't try to promote your submissions to HN by getting friends to upvote them. If friends are trying to do you a favor, try to call them off. The HN software identifies most of this as voting ring activity and penalizes the story.
All: please don't try to promote your submissions to HN by getting friends to upvote them. If friends are trying to do you a favor, try to call them off. The HN software identifies most of this as voting ring activity and penalizes the story.