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by arm32 9mo ago
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- throw-12-16 9mo agohello dang!
- minimaxir 9mo agoHacker News doesn't memoryhole anti-YC threads.
- throw-12-16 9mo agolol it absolute does you ever notice how most YC announcements have comments disabled?
- minimaxir 9mo agoThose are job ads (a special type of post), not normal user discussions. Actual YC announcements do not have comments disabled.
- jascha_eng 9mo agoThey do however often ask friends and family to upvote and leave comments. Like "we have been very happy using XYZ" which is against HN rules but not that strictly enforced. I feel like it is extra-lax towards YC companies but maybe I'm imagining things.
- dang 9mo agoOn the contrary, we particularly tell YC founders not to do this—mostly privately, but there's a public version of it at https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html (scroll down to "Comments" and see the part in bold. That's me trying to scare them.) We do tend to be more lenient when there's no evidence of organized manipulation, just friends/fans/users trying to be helpful and not realizing that it's actually unhelpful. What dedicated HN users tend not to realize is that such casual commenters usually have no idea how HN is supposed to work. But this leniency isn't YC-specific. We're actually less lax when it comes to YC startups, for several reasons.
- jascha_eng 9mo agoOkay I have heard different things from some friends that are YC founders and saw them do it in practice (e.g. posting about their HN post on LinkedIn). I'm not going to out people here but maybe it helps you to know that not everyone plays by the rules. Tbf I also understand that this is just really hard to enforce.
- tptacek 9mo agoThis is a great way to get your posts buried. We have to warn well-wishers not to do this (autonomously) before we post anything major, from bitter experience.
- uoaei 9mo agoCan you make a case why you'd be an authority on the matter?
- minimaxir 9mo agoI know a bit how HN works: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented But as noted by freehorse, dang has stated it multiple times and I personally have not seen any threads memoryholed and would call out YC if they were.
- uoaei 9mo agoDownvoted for not recognizing HN royalty, what a charming community.
- freehorse 9mo agoTo be fair, a moderator has stated this many times 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...
- uoaei 9mo agoI don't see how that's "fair". Moderators are not impartial and since they are paid now they also have a vested interest in lying.