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It would be foolish and self-destructive not to have such guidelines. Like it or not, social media such as HN can be crucial to company success. Additionally,
by rectang 5y ago
It would be foolish and self-destructive not to have such guidelines. Like it or not, social media such as HN can be crucial to company success.
Additionally, a lot of the rules on the page make it more likely that contributions to HN by Gitlab team members offer good community value.
- salomon812 5y agoAbsolutely. True story: I was at a small startup and our company organically made it to Hacker New's front page. I was so excited. At that point, I was only a reader. I made an account, upvoted it, told our social media manager. Next thing I knew, it fell off the front page and we suspected I or the manager accidentally set off the fake vote detector. We had no idea such a thing even existed. The CEO was so disappointed in us. We learned the hard way. Edit: to be clear, I wasn't trying to game the system. I was just so excited that the product I'd been working on appeared on a site I often read. Only in retrospect did it occur to me why one would have anti-vote ring detectors. Yes, I was naive.
- mooreds 5y agoHeh, we've all done it. Takes some time to acclimate to a community and learn the norms.