I love Hacker News, but as it's grown in popularity, the odds of getting a submission on the homepage have become more about luck and timing than about quality content. Unless a whole bunch of people immediately vote a post up, it quickly rolls off the "new" page and into oblivion.<p>So I'm starting a Hacker News upvoting cabal, for the mutual benefit of the participants.<p>It will consist of a simple email discussion list, where we can pre-promote our latest projects before we actually submit them to Hacker News and other social news sites.<p>If you consider one of these pre-promoted projects interesting and are available to vote it up at the designated submission time, then I'm sure your fellow cabal member will appreciate it.<p>On the other hand, if you think a project is lame or otherwise unworthy, you're under no obligation to stuff the ballot box.<p>I figure if we limit this cabal to 25 members to start, and enforce a limit of, say, five pre-promoted projects a month, the emails won't get out of hand.<p>If you're interested, email me. User name: hacker-news-upvoting-cabal-shaun, domain: pressbin.com