Yeah, unfortunately, there are de facto voting blocs on HN these days. It wasn't always like this. But now there are 10,000 YC affiliated people, 50,000 from G

Yeah, unfortunately, there are de facto voting blocs on HN these days. It wasn't always like this. But now there are 10,000 YC affiliated people, 50,000 from Google/Microsoft/Amazon, etc and so it totally skews the results towards these larger organizations. I would be happy if users were asked to provide their Bigco employer in a private field, and then I could filter out their votes by visiting /nobigco or something. But ideally, voting on stories/comments related to your own BigCo employer would be disabled entirely.