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If you expect people to be completely nice to you, perhaps you should not falsely accuse others of manipulating users for profit.
by ALittleLight 4y ago
If you expect people to be completely nice to you, perhaps you should not falsely accuse others of manipulating users for profit.
- daenz 4y agoI disagree that it's a false accusation. YCombinator benefits financially from putting their job postings on the front page, I think we can all agree on that. You seem to disagree that it's "manipulation" to make their job posting look nearly identical to a normal, organic user submission. I think it is a subtle dark pattern and explained my reasoning.
- ALittleLight 4y agoYou can't vote on it, you can't comment, and the title fits the pattern I mentioned earlier - it's absurd to describe this as "nearly identical" to the normal submission. Having occasional, untargetted, marked, on topic advertising on a free site is about as far from "dark pattern" as it is possible to be.
- daenz 4y agoA dark pattern has nothing to do with whether they're justified in doing it (for instance, because this is a free site). The submissions could be marked with "YC Sponsored Post" they're still totally justified in doing it, but it would be less of a dark pattern than it is now.