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Yes I also don't want to go to the conspiracy blame game. However as I propose to the ask HN, the HN could add a rule to impose a limit to the amount of produc

Yes I also don't want to go to the conspiracy blame game. However as I propose to the ask HN, the HN could add a rule to impose a limit to the amount of product related articles on the front page per month (or some specific time duration). This will protect other companies in the same space and improve the quality and interest of the site. HN has grown too big to ignore this.

brigandish 4y ago
So one Linux article, one Apple article…
- spapas82 4y ago
  Not really! These are not the same thing :) It'd be more like one Apple ipods article, one Linux Debian article etc.
  - sph 4y ago
    Does a Tailscale iOS article and a service disruption post-mortem from them count as two separate articles? They deal with different topics with potentially different audiences. What about two articles about running Debian, one on an iPod the other on a PC? These intricacies is why we have lawyers and Reddit moderators killing your post because there is an arbitrary exception to their 15 rules you hadn't considered. We can do without these. (This whole conversation thread reminds me of my time reading Bakunin & co. :)
  - brigandish 4y ago
    You're favouring larger companies over smaller ones then, instead of what HN users actually put forth and vote on. No thanks.
sph 4y ago
Who decides the rule? Who enforces it? Who monitors the ruler? Let HN regulate itself. You don't like it, hide or flag it or ignore it. People will soon move onto the next shiny thing, and that time, you might be one of the enthusiastic commenters being excited about it. The more the rules, the more ways to exploit and game the system. Not everything has to be codified.
- scandinavian 4y ago
  > Let HN regulate itself. That's not how it works today though, the moderator (dang) can move posts to and from the top of the frontpage, one example being posts about YC funded companies being artifically bumped to the top at times.

brigandish 4y ago

So one Linux article, one Apple article…

spapas82 4y ago
Not really! These are not the same thing :) It'd be more like one Apple ipods article, one Linux Debian article etc.
- sph 4y ago
  Does a Tailscale iOS article and a service disruption post-mortem from them count as two separate articles? They deal with different topics with potentially different audiences. What about two articles about running Debian, one on an iPod the other on a PC? These intricacies is why we have lawyers and Reddit moderators killing your post because there is an arbitrary exception to their 15 rules you hadn't considered. We can do without these. (This whole conversation thread reminds me of my time reading Bakunin & co. :)
- brigandish 4y ago
  You're favouring larger companies over smaller ones then, instead of what HN users actually put forth and vote on. No thanks.

sph 4y ago

Who decides the rule? Who enforces it? Who monitors the ruler? Let HN regulate itself. You don't like it, hide or flag it or ignore it. People will soon move onto the next shiny thing, and that time, you might be one of the enthusiastic commenters being excited about it. The more the rules, the more ways to exploit and game the system. Not everything has to be codified.

scandinavian 4y ago
> Let HN regulate itself. That's not how it works today though, the moderator (dang) can move posts to and from the top of the frontpage, one example being posts about YC funded companies being artifically bumped to the top at times.