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Does YC have any links to Chinese businesses they might want to disclose?

dang 7y ago
All I know comes from public reports, which is that YC was planning something in China at some point. I don't know what its status is. Your question may to be coming from a mistaken place, though. Nothing like that would affect Hacker News moderation. HN has had editorial independence from YC for years [1, 2] and we don't think about such things while moderating. What we think about is how to keep the site in line with its values [3], and how the community feels about things. 1 https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-hacker-news-to-give-it-full-editorial-independence/ https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-ha... 2. https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lawrenceyan 7y ago
  Hey dang, hopefully you're already aware of this, but if not, I just wanted to let you know that a common tactic I've noticed that's increasingly being utilized is to mass flag a submission in order to quickly have it removed from the top of the page. Since the algorithm automatically lowers the priority of highly flagged posts, and it requires some level of manual intervention in order to unflag a flagged post, it works quite well for selectively bringing down unwanted submissions. One way of resolving this I think would be to additionally add a weight for the existing prioritization weight associated with the number of flags on a submission such that a post with an increasing amount of upvotes requires a proportionally higher number of flags to be deprioritized. [e.g. maybe something like (number_of_flags / number_of_upvotes) * (time_decay_between_avg_interval_of_flags_per_unit_time_versus_upvotes_respectively)]
  - dang 7y ago
    It's best if you email hn@ycombinator.com with specific links if you think submissions are being flagged inappropriately. Since this subthread has turned into "ask the mods arbitrary things", I detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208169 and marked it off-topic.
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dang 7y ago

All I know comes from public reports, which is that YC was planning something in China at some point. I don't know what its status is. Your question may to be coming from a mistaken place, though. Nothing like that would affect Hacker News moderation. HN has had editorial independence from YC for years [1, 2] and we don't think about such things while moderating. What we think about is how to keep the site in line with its values [3], and how the community feels about things. 1 https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-hacker-news-to-give-it-full-editorial-independence/ https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-ha... 2. https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/ 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

lawrenceyan 7y ago
Hey dang, hopefully you're already aware of this, but if not, I just wanted to let you know that a common tactic I've noticed that's increasingly being utilized is to mass flag a submission in order to quickly have it removed from the top of the page. Since the algorithm automatically lowers the priority of highly flagged posts, and it requires some level of manual intervention in order to unflag a flagged post, it works quite well for selectively bringing down unwanted submissions. One way of resolving this I think would be to additionally add a weight for the existing prioritization weight associated with the number of flags on a submission such that a post with an increasing amount of upvotes requires a proportionally higher number of flags to be deprioritized. [e.g. maybe something like (number_of_flags / number_of_upvotes) * (time_decay_between_avg_interval_of_flags_per_unit_time_versus_upvotes_respectively)]
- dang 7y ago
  It's best if you email hn@ycombinator.com with specific links if you think submissions are being flagged inappropriately. Since this subthread has turned into "ask the mods arbitrary things", I detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208169 and marked it off-topic.

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