ssclafani·14 lat temu·discussI emailed PG about this a week ago, his response:"It just seems to."Normally loading the vote URL directly doesn't work because votes that don't have a HN referrer don't get counted. By submitting the URL to HN and getting people to click through a HN referrer gets sent making the votes look legitimate.
"It just seems to."
Normally loading the vote URL directly doesn't work because votes that don't have a HN referrer don't get counted. By submitting the URL to HN and getting people to click through a HN referrer gets sent making the votes look legitimate.