The thing is, I don't think this post benefits the community, especially reposting the lifehacker version after the original was front page so recently. I'm not really into social hacking, personally it feels dishonest. I discussed this on the last thread; social hacking only works because you're working against the norm. If everyone adopted it, it wouldn't be effective. So you have to do things that are really outrageous, that most people won't do. The other downside is that social hacking doesn't usually create anything; if everyone was social hacking, nobody would have energy for constructive endeavours.

The broader point of my first post was that I felt there might be some manipulation of the system to put this post on the front page. Unfortunately it's difficult to prove, but we could always say that I'm making baseless allegations for reasons of self-promotion. That certainly feels like social hacking