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I can't actually find what Maciej submitted, why it was initially rejected, and why it was deemed within the rules. It's kinda hard to scroll through hundreds o

• DanBC 11y ago
  HN had a competition. The prize was some money and invitation to HN Fellowship. This was announced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627 Some people applied. Pinboard applied. Some people felt that Pinboard fell outside the scope of the competition. (Because it's a well known, much used, much loved, site.) Pinboard was included in the poll, here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639 Pinboard got a lot of votes. Some of these were from people coming from Twitter after Pinboard announced the poll. Some people felt that was an abuse of the process; other entries got penalised for doing the same thing and it's a long established convention on HN that you do not ask people to upvote submissions. Other people felt that if it was a rule it should have been more clearly communicated. Pinboard got more votes than other entries, but were initially denied fellowship and funding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270 This caused some anger, annoying, displeasure, etc. I've tried to write this neutrally, but I may have mangled some of it.