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Could you upvote my Hacker News post? :)

by Mark Smith

I just posted my newsletter to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25477020

Apparently it’s more likely to hit the front page if it has a few upvotes.

Could a few of you upvote the post on HN?

It would be really really really helpful :)

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on December 19, 2020
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    FYI - upvotes from direct links don't get counted.

    User Avatar rosiesherry
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    5 years ago
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      The mod system of HN seems super powerful!

      I'm amazed how they put super strict rules to keep their homepage clean

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      5 years ago
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      What’s an upvote from a direct link?

      Avatar for Mark Smith mjgs
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        This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

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    Also asking for upvotes breaks etiquette and rules, someone not nice might report your post and get you shadowbanned or whatever...

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      Really? I didn’t realise that was the case. My impression was that people regularly asked their friends to upvote their posts.

      Avatar for Mark Smith mjgs
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        People sometimes do, and they break HN guidelines by doing so

        https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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    Careful with that’s it’s against their rules.

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