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Looks like it can't handle HN traffic - getting 500 errors.

Here's the relevant pages from the Internet Archive:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20210302035850/https://upvotes.c...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20210120172656/https://upvotes.c...

Upvotes are $1.95, "max: 10/new post - We upvote with very strong accounts; if you don’t make it to the main page after at most 10 of our upvotes and a few organic ones, more won’t help!"

Comments are $7.50

Presumably figuring out which "very strong accounts" are used for this would be a case of buying some upvotes and comments and watching which accounts are used.

>>simonw+(OP)
Yeah and this one is a nice read, too:

> http://web.archive.org/web/20210126003211/https://upvotes.cl...

Frankly, it would be enough for dang to buy one and ban all these accounts. They would have to gather all their karma from zero. Ethically grey though.

>>simonw+(OP)
Wait, you can buy comments too? That is a much bigger can of worms. Comments are publicly attached to an account, and someone has to write them.

>>dvfjsd+K
“Ethically gray”, that’s a laugh.

>>Sheinh+84
In the sense that you'd give these fraudsters a few bucks in order to ban them.