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> 1) Filter out troll applications and applications with fake votes and other ineligible applications. How exactly do you identify "troll" applications? The mo
by miguelrochefort 11y ago
> 1) Filter out troll applications and applications with fake votes and other ineligible applications.
How exactly do you identify "troll" applications? The most important ideas are often the most likely to be perceived as an act of trolling.
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- tdaltonc 11y agoAny examples?
- abhi3 11y agoPinboard McPinboardface
- idlewords 11y agoI met the stated criteria and dominated the voting. I want my twenty grand. Accusing me of trolling is not just dismissive, but implies I'm acting in bad faith. That's a pretty serious thing to say about someone.
- Alex3917 11y ago> Accusing me of trolling [...] implies I'm acting in bad faith. Not necessarily. I troll people all the time by saying things that are true but sound wrong to the average person, and never in bad faith. PG and Zed Shaw frequently do the same thing, albeit in different ways, and I wouldn't say that they're acting in bad faith either. To the extent the book Made To Stick is correct that people are much more likely to become engaged with and ultimately remember things that seem wrong or counterintuitive at first, trolling at it's best is just a highly effective didactic technique.
- tptacek 11y agoI think he just said he wasn't trolling.
- minimaxir 11y agoNote that OP is being very coy and is not disclosing the fact that the proposed rules benefit his own Apply HN submission. The OP is referring to Pinboard which was a joke submission.
- idlewords 11y agoWhat basis do you have for claiming it's a joke?
- minimaxir 11y agoPinboard is not eligible for the YCF because it is not an early-stage startup. Otherwise the submission is perfectly fine. :p
- idlewords 11y agoFrom https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/ https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/: "The only restrictions on acceptable teams are founders must be willing to work on their ideas full-time, and teams can’t have previously taken money from investors."
- minimaxir 11y agoHuh. It appears I have been lawyered.
- abhi3 11y agoFrom the same page: What if we haven’t yet received investment, but we have a ton of traction, users, revenue, etc.? We want YC Fellowship to really help teams that are just starting off, or have been struggling to get traction. If you’re doing really well, we’ll likely ask you to apply for the next batch of Y Combinator.
- idlewords 11y ago
- mtmail 11y agoI've seen very low quality submissions in the /new queue. Basically a single sentence, no information about team, no contact information in the profiles and no upvotes either. Looking through the 300 submission in the /applyhn queue I can't find an example so they could have been filtered already or flagged at one point or another. With more than one submission I thought "you have 2000(?) characters to present, why didn't you invest some time?", again I see that as low quality, not trolling.
- brudgers 11y agoSince "Apply HN" is for fellowships and the idea of fellowships is that the business is not necessarily ready to go into business mode, I'm not sure that application polish is an ideal metric. It measures application quality rather than something more meaningful like potential impact multiplied by potential execution.
- biot 11y agoYou can often tell when someone is being a wise guy in their application. Sometimes their application contains a virtual sarcasm tag when they self-identify as being a wise guy.