https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779494 Thread from 2 months ago with some insight from the core developers

Yourself ?

If you are the only one to gain from gaming the system, you can ensure it's not gamed by not gaming it. If you can't resist that, nobody can help you xD

But what about vandalism and trolldom, right?

Sorry, I thought my answer was more self-explicit than it is. I just thought a lot of people would simulate a high number of "likes" on their articles for added credibility or whatever ("hey 3000 likes on this little button, a lot of people must think this guy is important")

It's your own website though, you can already put any lies you want on there.

I'm not the author, I just stumbled on the project and found it interesting. I guess you could suggest it to him on twitter @olivernn

There's also a website with docs and an example by the author here : http://lunrjs.com/