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If you are so insecure that you need to buy upvotes to make the front page of HN, then you are probably in need of some psychological help.

Seriously - get help.

https://www.mentalhealth.gov/

>>MR4D+(OP)
It's probably less of a personal thing and more of a marketing/advertisement campaign thing.

The website itself claims to be organic advertising, and it's certainly something that would work. This is actually used in practice on sides like Reddit[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk

>>zkldi+A
FYI - Your video link is marked as "private".

Also, I don't know any companies that "advertise" on HN.

I am on HN to get away from companies here - I want interaction with people.

If I wanted companies, I would read everything on FB instead.

>>MR4D+w2
Whoops, looks like they took it down. There's a reupload here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAkUs3urrg.

And it depends on your definition of advertisement, I guess. A new version of $product coming out getting to the front page here is advertisement, but (in theory) organic, from people who are genuinely interested in $product.

If that's taken advantage of (like it is in reddit), then you can manufacture that organic "advertising".

From what other people in the thread are saying, it appears HN mods clamp down hard on this stuff, so it's probably not much of a concern here, but it's still interesting to see.