If there was a bury/upmod brigade on HN, how would we know?
jacquesm: I've definitely seen evidence of 'upmod' brigades, if you refresh the 'new' page with a relatively high frequency (say once every two minutes) every now and then you pick up a new article that is complete nonsense but that already has 3 or 4 upvotes in less than the minute that it is alive.Bury brigades are less common, but there are definitely people that have a 'fanclub' that will downmod whatever they write no matter how on topic or good the contribution is.Usually this corrects itself after a while though.