Ask HN: Someone Mucking Around with Voting System?

I saw this post stamped 1-min ago at the top of a popular thread started 17 hours ago: http://prntscr.com/kw5lj2

It seemed a bit odd being a new comment at the top so wondering if HN sees manipulated posts? It might have just been a timing thing as I saw it drop down quite quickly.

I was returning to this thread from earlier so maybe that influenced something?

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cimmanom 7y ago ↗

HN seems to give new comments a temporary recency bonus so that they have a chance to be noticed and upvoted and this contribute to the discussion instead of completely buried at the bottom of a page that very few people will scroll down.