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Re:We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark by minimaxir on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:47PM (#16803387)
For those wondering about the high number of upvotes, the OP drew attention to this submission with a tweet: https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/983759240891281408

(It's not intentional voting manipulation, but I do wish Hacker News would clarify their policy on linking to submissions as a discussion forum, which can cause this unintentional voting manipulation)

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Re:We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark by mburst on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:48PM (#16803397)
Votes don't count on direct links to HN posts
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Re:We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark by minimaxir on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:50PM (#16803418)
Votes on direct links don't count in terms of article ranking, but they'll increment the upvote counter which could cause bandwagoning.

Since this submission got to #3 on the front page, there are likely enough authentic upvotes. Again, it's an algorithmic gray area.

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Re:We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark by slig on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:53PM (#16803454)
Besides not counting on the rank, do they also trigger some king of red flag?
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Re:We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark by stedaniels on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:03PM (#16803550)
They would be exceptionally easy to trigger by a nefarious actor.
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