[jiggy2011]

How long before we see a blog entitled "How I hacked my way to the HN front page by pretending to be 14"

[Andrex]

HN needs less cynicism, not more.

[moistgorilla]

I took it more as an absurd joke... I don't think he was seriously suggesting that someone would do this.

[dspillett]

> I don't think he was seriously suggesting that someone would do this.

Somebody will do this at some point I'm sure. Such tricks go on everywhere were user voting affects the position of a post in a given site/area, and following people using the trick you will get others trying to claim kudos for having come up with it in the first place.

[SoftwareMaven]

But all of the intelligentsia are cynical, therefore, to appear to be part of it, one must be cynical. Constructive criticism is so passé.

[jiggy2011]

Of course, I got about twice as much karma for the GP comment than I have for posting actual useful stuff.

[stfu]

Usually it is those who are 12 y/o and don't know what this is.