Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?
gyardley: I'd love to see Hacker News release who upvoted what, when - 'anonymized' if necessary (although I'm skeptical whether anonymization with a unique ID would truly be anonymous).  The quantitative among us could mine the data for interesting things and vote-rigging would be exposed.Any reason why this data couldn't be made public?  There's an implicit social contract here - you don't expect the private to suddenly become public - but if that's a concern, we could get around this by just exposing the data from a publicly-announced point in the future.