[dang]

We've banned the submitter, the site, and dozens of other accounts for using a ring of accounts to manipulate HN. Such abuse is not tolerated.

All: if you notice fishy things (as a user did in this case), please let us know at [e-mail]. We catch a lot of abuse between software and moderation, but unfortunately not all. Vigilant users make a huge difference, and protecting the integrity of HN is a community effort.

(Please don't post insinuations about abuse in the threads, though, since most suspicions don't end up leading to real evidence. Send them to [e-mail]. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

[trevyn]

Manipulate HN into talking about math? I don’t have the full picture, but the discussion this generated is better than many posts.

[thaumasiotes]

> All: if you notice fishy things like this, please let us know at [e-mail]

What would we have noticed, in this case?

[dang]

I wish I could spell it all out, but unfortunately that would help spammers.

Here's one thing though: multiple accounts submitting, commenting, and promoting the same person's sites, articles, and (importantly) repos.

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