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Whoopsie! I thought HN policy is to moderate less, not more, when YC is involved. Hmmmm... https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/crypto-web3 https://w
by music4airports 10mo ago
Whoopsie! I thought HN policy is to moderate less, not more, when YC is involved.
Hmmmm... https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/crypto-web3 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/crypto-web3
Looks like the entire thread was bumped down from 17th place to 130th.
https://hnrankings.info/46120728/ https://hnrankings.info/46120728/
>We moderate less, not more, when a story involves YC or a YC startup. This is pretty much the #1 rule of HN moderation. I've posted about it many times over 10 years: 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...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732846)
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- tomhow 10mo agoModerators didn't touch (or see) this until later, and the only way we intervened was to turn off the flags and flamewar penalties. HN users flagged it and the flamewar (or signal vs noise) detector pulled it well off the front page before moderators knew anything about it. > I thought HN policy is to moderate less, not more, when YC is involved. As dang wrote years ago [1], "Moderating HN less, however, does not mean not moderating at all—that would be a loophole you could drive a truck through". But the real issue with this post is... there's nothing interesting or scandalous here, is there? Just someone (sure, our president) expressing opinions – which are all consistent with his business and investment activities. What's the issue? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27321978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27321978