> It's cute that you have nothing better to do than play forum detective, but take your suspicion and stuff it.

It's bad enough to run a voting ring and astroturf the comment threads, but abusing other users on top of that is right out. We've banned all the new accounts that voted for this story and buried the repost that was on the front page.

If any of you would like to read HN's rules and promise to follow them in the future, you'll find our email address there.