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Not only that, there's a variety of mechanisms built in to boost/identify YC users to other YCers to provide mechanisms of boosting their submitted stories. HN
by zmitri 14y ago
Not only that, there's a variety of mechanisms built in to boost/identify YC users to other YCers to provide mechanisms of boosting their submitted stories. HN in itself is like a giant voter ring in that way.
- wglb 14y agoDo you have specific evidence of that?
- codewright 14y agoIt's pretty well known. Don't know that I'd use the term voter ring though. It's just that if you're in a YC batch or an alum you get posts, especially job posts, boosted. I wouldn't pay much mind to this talk of mechanisms and gaming systems, sounds like post-hoc reasoning by outsiders.
- tptacek 14y agoThere is more than that going on.
- codewright 14y agoNot that I'm surprised, but I have to imagine it would take the form of the quasi-benign backslapping I saw on Reddit.
- zmitri 14y agoThink about this: YC is a business. YC likes hackers -- hell, YC are hackers. Gaming systems is what hacking is about. Hacker News provides a platform to let their companies get attention. Being front page on HN brings you traffic and tech attention. The HN that you read is the same one potential hires, investors and journalists read.
- Terretta 14y agoPre-chasm traffic.
- tptacek 14y agoIt's true, or was recently.
- pg 14y agoNo there aren't. YC founders' userids show up in orange to one another, and there is a page where they can see one anothers' submissions. There are no mechanisms to "boost" stories submitted by YC founders, nor does the voting ring detector discriminate.
- zmitri 14y agoTo me that sounds like a mechanism to help boost. Not automatically, but definitely an advantage.