How to game hackernews?.. or NOT

I think the answer to this question is "not". The "gamed" post was flagged and killed.

&#62; We would like to conclude the post saying that it was not a marketing gimmick from our end. Being hackers ourselves, we just wanted to check if HN algo was vulnerable to such tricks.<p>Ok does anyone buy this?

How did this get to front page? Hmm...