Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?
tokenadult: Many of the interesting problems mentioned here can be alleviated in large part if a large part of the veteran participants here browse the new submissionshttp://news.ycombinator.com/newsand upvote those that most contribute to the HN community's interests, as defined by the guidelines.http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlI'm sure some people ask for upvoting help from their friends, but I'm sure I don't, and most of the time I think I get a fair response from the (unknown to me) group of participants who either upvote or pass by my submissions. Random issues like at what time of day in what time zone I post probably make a difference, but I mostly don't worry about that.