Please don&#x27;t make accounts (or get friends to make accounts) to upvote or comment on your own posts. It&#x27;s against the rules, and gets accounts and sites banned.<p>But more importantly, HN readers really hate it when people do that, and their nose for it is supersensitive. So even if you escape HN&#x27;s software and moderators, the fate that awaits is unenviable.