No, some simple comments from some of my colleagues and friends were identified as bot comments. I'm sorry.

So your colleagues all created accounts between forty and seventy minutes ago to make positive comments (except for one account that's existed for two years, but has only ever commented on this guy's stuff)?

Even if this is the case, that's arguably just as much of a voting ring as bots.

The project has been around for 10 years and has almost 2500 stars on Github. The creator is Chinese but working in English as a courtesy and has used this body of code to create a number of fascinating projects, including an x86 emulator.

What have you given to the programming world lately?

EDIT: it was pointed out that this last comment was abusive. Sorry about that.

Good for him. I haven't known how to program very much for very long, and am a student, but so what? Am I not allowed to mention someone breaking rules? If you look above, I gave credit where credit was due, and only mentioned this near the bottom as a reply to a relevant comment. Quit white-knighting; I'm sure the author can defend himself.

Duly noted. I was hot-headed. I apologize.

Their own account, only one.

I'm sure the intentions were good, but this is outside what the community considers polite behavior. The FAQ mentions this about voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If users aren't posting qua community members then the expectation is to provide a disclaimer.

Ok, thanks. Also, awesome work; this looks very useful.

What on earth is OP going to do with a “voting ring“ for Apache-copyrighted software?

EDIT: I am being a complete jerk tonight. Sorry again.

Please stop.