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		dang 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at H... Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

andyprevalsky 3 months ago | [–]

Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb

AllyRectangle 3 months ago | [–]

I'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...

dang 3 months ago | [–]

It's no different.

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