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The cool thing about HN is that, by its very nature, any post that gets voted to the front page is warranted.

tylfin 8y ago
On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.
- jankeymeulen 8y ago
  True, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?
- oom 8y ago
  Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users. Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users. Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy. Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-users-and-gets-a-big-update-for-the-enterprise/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098
he6s4vyu 8y ago
Given that the mods can alter the rank of a post artificially, and do so probably often, this statement holds no weight.
- stronglikedan 8y ago
  It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
  - he6s4vyu 8y ago
    Adding weight to a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 Removing weight from a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753 Please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
    - stronglikedan 8y ago
      You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.

On the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.

jankeymeulen 8y ago
True, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?
oom 8y ago
Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users. Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users. Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy. Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-users-and-gets-a-big-update-for-the-enterprise/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098

he6s4vyu 8y ago

Given that the mods can alter the rank of a post artificially, and do so probably often, this statement holds no weight.

stronglikedan 8y ago
It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
- he6s4vyu 8y ago
  Adding weight to a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 Removing weight from a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485753 Please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
  - stronglikedan 8y ago
    You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.