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Knowing that it was on the front page yesterday makes the duping justifiable to me. But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will pro
by the_duke 7y ago
Knowing that it was on the front page yesterday makes the duping justifiable to me.
But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion.
Moderation is hard.
- dang 7y ago> But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion That's exactly right! A subtle observation. We tend to demote follow-up or copycat posts for that very reason. Not as much in a case like this, though, because of the rule that we moderate less, not more, when a YC startup is involved. I just posted about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983.