Please everybody, don't ring-vote your posts; just take your chances with HN's randomness. If a post is solid and hasn't gotten any attention yet, a couple of reposts is ok. Be careful not to abuse that, since we eventually penalize accounts for reposting too much. Send questions to hn@ycombinator.com.
Anyway thanks for bringing original content back to HN. Anyone know if there's a demo page for this library?
I agree that it's a problem and I have a really sweet plan for taking care of it, but there's no time to write about it now.
By the way, Dang, thanks a bunch for the transparency. That's refreshing!
I did share the HN link on Campfire and colleagues must've jumped to pitch in. It is hard to draw the line but I can see how this sort of behavior should be unrecommended from the start.
Thanks for being so transparent and for spinning this back up. Lesson learned, but I have to ask, are profiles also flagged once they are associated with posts nailed by the vote ring detector?