[fmax30]

Meh, probably the author should not have categorically asked everyone at plan9 (an incubator he heads) to up-vote this story and make comment like awesome , cool etc .

Umar Saif probably thought that he could use his position of power to get all the up-votes he want , what he didn't know was that HN has specific filter to counter the just the karma gathering activities like this one.

[danso]

Yeah I hesitated to even comment on this story, knowing it would be flagged almost immediately. How could someone put a bunch of time into an app related to social ranking and networking and not be savvier at astroturfing?