[dang]

It isn't cool to try to boost your post with promotional upvotes, whether from sockpuppet accounts or friends. That is against the rules here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and we ban or penalize accounts and sites that do it.

[anitil]

Out of interest, how did you pick it up? (I understand you may not want to reveal this)

[dang]

Yeah, that's one of the few cases where intellectual curiosity (the driving value of HN) has to yield to administrative secrets (boo). In case it helps: the answer is not that interesting. I just can't publish it because then we'd burn the method.

[anitil]

Sure, I figured as much