[dang]

Posting once about this was ok, though the ring votes and (especially) the sockpuppet comments were not ok—we penalize and ban those, respectively.

Please don't post about it repeatedly though. Rallying support for a cause is mostly not on topic here.

[jonathanmarvens]

Hey, I wasn't aware that this was an issue. However, those comments were NOT "sockpuppet comments". All of us backers who've been ripped off have a Facebook group ( https://facebook.com/groups/469833006482519 ) and those comments were from folks on there. You guys really should not just make assumptions like this and delete comments. That isn't fair. - Jonathan

[minimaxir]

> please go upvote. The more upvotes it gets, the faster it reaches the front page of Hacker News (which has a HUGE HUGE audience). Thanks!

You are quite literally asking for upvotes.

[dang]

I didn't mean that the commenters weren't real—sorry for the imprecision. We use the term "sockpuppet" rather loosely to include cases where people show up to comment only as part of a story they're trying to push. When a bunch of new accounts show up to do it at the same time, we ban them, because that's not a legit use of HN comments.