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Comment by grhmc | Hacker News Reader

Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue

This is very gross behavior, dominikgro / Refind.

EDIT:

I'm also skeptical about these accounts:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=firmasaga1

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andreasbrenner

- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=geo_O

I've seen this happen once or twice before. I think HN should have some simple algo to detect these and adjust weighting accordingly.

Before HN, Refind had about 900 users (half of them very active). We just announced by email and in the product that we're on HN today.

Also, as a Refind user, I recognize quite a few of these people. Definitely here because of the announcement and not fake profiles.

You don't need to be sceptical about my account :) It has been registered with Hackernews for >1 year. Many YC alumni can confirm me being real and being not Dominik (founder of refind). I know him personally, I have been a happy user of refind and when I learned there was a chance to push it on hackernews I did.

It breaks HN's rules to solicit votes (see the FAQ), which promoting a submission often has the effect of. This often gets the submission, accounts, and/or site banned or penalized, so please avoid this. HN's software, moderation, and (as you've seen here) community are all sensitive to it.

I did not know that new users could upvote on HN. Interesting!

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