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So the whole voting system is artificially skewed by HN admins?
by simplehuman 10y ago
So the whole voting system is artificially skewed by HN admins?
- nzjrs 10y agoYou must be new here
- joe_the_user 10y agoI'm not new here and I'm somewhat taken aback
- nzjrs 10y agoOh. Ranking here has always been mysterious and corrupt. Do You think all those ycombinator company posts get to the front page on their own merit? Ha!
- scrollaway 10y agoIt's as if a community of programmers and engineers can't understand the various weights a ranking algorithm can take into account outside of plain "2 > 1". Stunning.
- mrmagooey 10y agoThere's several hundred Y Combinator companies, but I don't think I've seen a commensurate number of posts to HN. You'd know if it was open slather on Y Combinator companies posting self-promotion material to HN because this post would not be at the top, it would be some launch page for a company ending in 'ly'. I typically only notice YC companies mentioned here when it is a Techcrunch (or similar) article about them.
- Eutow 10y agoIsn't 4 upvotes in 11 minutes a lot for Hackernews? I don't think there's anything untoward going on here but I may be naive.
- jdoliner 10y agoHN has always had some editorial oversight from admins. That being said I'm not sure why you were initially surprised at this being on the front page with 4 upvotes in 11 minutes. That's a lot by hn standards. Check new, this and 1 other post are the only ones above 4.