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If you were trying to hose a competitor by posting e.g. their blog posts at a slow time like 4 am pacific, they'd have to help you out by publishing their blog
by pg 15y ago
If you were trying to hose a competitor by posting e.g. their blog posts at a slow time like 4 am pacific, they'd have to help you out by publishing their blog posts at that time. In my experience no one does that. Companies wait to publish their posts at good times, and then the links are quickly submitted to HN, either by the company or someone else. So a bad guy would rarely have an opportunity to submit an as-yet unsubmitted link at a slow time.
- rabble 15y agoYeah, i think blog posts aren't such a big issue, since often important news gets reblogged and the posts come from there as well. It's more likely to be a problem with the initial announcement of a url as being life. Say, AirBnB.com changes their name to rent.com, for example.
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoNot to mention that the owner of the site can re-submit on a more favourable hour by appending to the url with things like "/" or "?fromHn=true"
- pg 15y agoWhen we see those we kill them.
- brlewis 15y agoFred Wilson posts then. I and other well-meaning HNers on the east coast sometimes accidentally kill good posts of his by submitting them at a bad time. If you can think of a way to make gravity a function of activity rather than time without making it easy to game, then this problem will go away.