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There needs to be a dedicated “YC Portfolio Company Support” section of HN.

• churchill 4y ago
  I second this - BTW, it's the second time I'm seeing someone pitch it this week.
• c7DJTLrn 4y ago
  The number of issues posted on HN that get sorted because somebody browsing the front page happens to work there is astonishing. And terrible. What's everybody else supposed to do?
  • jacquesm 4y ago
    I'm halfway towards simply flagging such posts. In the long term this simply won't scale.
• deelly 4y ago
  No one will look into it I`m afraid.
• dang 4y ago
  The HN-as-customer-support-of-last-resort thing is pretty equal-opportunity, i.e. non-YC companies and YC companies both. e.g. there are tons of these for the inscrutable googolith. The difference is just that we downweight the submissions less when YC startups are involved (because of the principle outlined here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). However, there have been so many of these recently that we're tweaking our approach to downweight them more—maybe not quite as much as non-YC-related cases, but more than we used to. That's because we're starting to see a community allergic reaction to the high quantity of these, and that's as close to a hivemind verdict as we get here. Recent explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190090 (Dec 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745192 (Nov 2022)