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>>muchte+(OP)
Sorry in advance for the grumpy response, but I hate articles like this and I detest the manipulation of an organic voting mechanism for self-promotion.

I know this is the Internet we have to live with, but this kind of stuff just makes it a worse place to be.

>>shever+v1
At the end of the day, dang decides what goes on HN, and all the voting and gaming is just advice how him and his software to consider. It's not a constitutional democracy.

>>hgsgm+nJ
To me it kind of is a constitutional democracy. We decide the rules of the system (constitution) and the community votes within that system (democracy). I've used this metaphor a fair bit over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....