Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?
Perceval: This kind of behavior is exactly what made Digg the useless oligarchy of content promotion that it is.I think asking other people to vote your favored story to the front page is really an exercise in egotism, and it kinda misses the point.  If other people are interested, your story will make it to the front page on merit.If other people aren't interested, why would one force it to the front page?  For what?  So that people can see it and skip over it and not discuss it and wish something more interesting were on the front page?I hope it doesn't come to the same measures that Digg tried (and mostly failed) to implement, with algorithmic detection of rigged voting and banning of people doing scripted submissions and votes.