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You could argue that if that said presentation was clearly stating to use hacker news as a marketing tool. (Which would attract the wrong people from the get go

You could argue that if that said presentation was clearly stating to use hacker news as a marketing tool. (Which would attract the wrong people from the get go anyway). On the flip side, bringing hacker news to the attention of the mass could have also a positive effect especially if these people can contribute relevant and good content. Additionally I feel that HN has a good algorithm to stop most of the people who wouldn't be a good fit anyway. Posting a post on HN and then getting people to vote won't get you to the front page (and if it does, getting dropped off it is pretty easy if the content you posted is not relevant).

jacques_chester 14y ago
> Additionally I feel that HN has a good algorithm to stop most of the people who wouldn't be a good fit anyway. > Posting a post on HN and then getting people to vote won't get you to the front page (and if it does, getting dropped off it is pretty easy if the content you posted is not relevant). If there's too much spam, those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest don't get time to look at what is actually good. They start upvoting on headlines.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago
  > those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest I don't know how they feel about it, but I sometimes feel that visiting /newest to vote / flag stuff is a kind of civic duty. For the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).