No, it&#x27;ll melt and quickly fall off the front page if it doesn&#x27;t get more votes in an appropriate amount of time.<p>It&#x27;s not trivial to game over time. HN has been very successfully handling attempts at gaming for years. If it didn&#x27;t, the site wouldn&#x27;t function at all given its traffic, it would be overwhelmed with crap 24&#x2F;7.