Over enough time on HN you start to notice patterns of things that are easy low-hanging upvotes. Of course we can't do anything with upvotes, but we can do things with clicks and usage metrics, and I'd imagine that Hn is a considered market when it comes to introducing something to the greater tech community. A lot of us tend to have some degree of decision making capability and influence in our orgs.
downvote and flag buttons. you only need a handful alt accounts get any comment you dislike [dead] or [flagged], and it only takes one successful submission of a yuppie clickbait article per alt
