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I wonder in this case whether it was a false positive. Lots of people want to support a project like this and it's fairly natural to email people and tell them that the link has been posted.

The only reason I don't do that any more is that someone told me about the voting ring detector.



Isn't that basically vote ringing?


Communicating about an appealing topic shouldn't be so detrimental.


Every voting ring considers its topic singularly appealing.

This is a hard problem and there are tradeoffs.


It's a Kickstarter about a Django framework that a large amount of the community have a (vested) interest in. So of course this group of people are going to upvote it, just like node stuff gets upvoted by node people, Ruby by Ruby people, etc.


What about allowing users (Maybe only those with more than x000 karma) to downvote links?


I doubt that we'll introduce story downvoting; at least not without a good reason. Users can already flag stories that shouldn't be on the front page.




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