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I am glad to see that I wasn't the only one who felt that IH were gaming the system and was treating their stories as spam. It does make me suspicious as to if

I am glad to see that I wasn't the only one who felt that IH were gaming the system and was treating their stories as spam. It does make me suspicious as to if HN admins treat YC alumni more equal than others.

throw_this_away 9y ago
Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned. That hasn't happened. The posts consistently end up on the front page because people like the site...
- throwaway88743 9y ago
  > Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned. If the voting data were available, one of us could prove the other wrong. As they are not, it is my opinion vs yours.
  - throw_this_away 9y ago
    It's HN's opinion vs yours.
- dang 9y ago
  Banning on HN doesn't quite work in so off-with-their-heads a way. There are many forms of gaming HN; the spectrum runs from outright evil all the way to accidental. We try to make the punishment fit the crime, so in general a site not being banned doesn't mean they didn't try to game the system.
dang 9y ago
We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either.
- throwaway88775 9y ago
  > We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either. This sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
  - markdown 9y ago
    goodbye.
    - markdown 9y ago
      Wondered why this got downvoted, then noticed that the throwaway I was replying to edited his comment. The original comment was basically "I'm done with HN! Goodbye!"
  - dang 9y ago
    Of course not, and I trust most HN readers not to take it that way. We like to be open about how we approach these questions.
kjksf 9y ago
As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni. Stripe is but as far as I know HN admins can't see the future.
- throwaway88775 9y ago
  > As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csallen https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csallen "...and YC alum (W2011)"

throw_this_away 9y ago

Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned. That hasn't happened. The posts consistently end up on the front page because people like the site...

throwaway88743 9y ago
> Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned. If the voting data were available, one of us could prove the other wrong. As they are not, it is my opinion vs yours.
- throw_this_away 9y ago
  It's HN's opinion vs yours.
dang 9y ago
Banning on HN doesn't quite work in so off-with-their-heads a way. There are many forms of gaming HN; the spectrum runs from outright evil all the way to accidental. We try to make the punishment fit the crime, so in general a site not being banned doesn't mean they didn't try to game the system.

dang 9y ago

We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either.

throwaway88775 9y ago
> We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either. This sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
- markdown 9y ago
  goodbye.
  - markdown 9y ago
    Wondered why this got downvoted, then noticed that the throwaway I was replying to edited his comment. The original comment was basically "I'm done with HN! Goodbye!"
- dang 9y ago
  Of course not, and I trust most HN readers not to take it that way. We like to be open about how we approach these questions.

kjksf 9y ago

As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni. Stripe is but as far as I know HN admins can't see the future.

throwaway88775 9y ago
> As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csallen https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csallen "...and YC alum (W2011)"