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No, I mean the spammer/cracker megadownvoting you into oblivion.

(And if you come to any other conclusion as to what's behind this after seeing that, I'd love to hear it.)

EDIT: Well, like another poster stated, they could have been linking a whole bunch of spam links with attractive titles to exploit the HN link glitch to garner the dude the 900+ downvotes. But I'm not sure you can get 900 clicks that way...




Yeah, seeing Polls submitted under various accounts and at least one person losing karma points makes me wonder if that's likely too. If it's done, we'd be able to appeal because it wasn't done for legitimate cause by those with the power at HN.




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