[aaaaaaak]

Upvote pattern on this is odd. Is someone botting the votes on selected submissions?

Submitter has a karma score of 1 but there are, as of writing this, 37 points on this post and it's only 45 minutes old.

A similar pattern to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348956 which has 39 points after 15 minutes, and karma score of 1 for the submitting user.

Is someone trying to manipulate the rankings? Either upwards by points, or downwards by penalty.

[dang]

Yes, I believe so. It doesn't seem to have been the OP, though. The submission was a fine one.

[ivjw]

I wondered this too. I think twelve minutes after submission it went from 1 point to 37 points.