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> Thanks to PG's rankban (I say things he dislikes, so my comments get a personal penalty in placement) this comment will probably be in the middle-bottom (if n

by phpnode 13y ago

> Thanks to PG's rankban (I say things he dislikes, so my comments get a personal penalty in placement) this comment will probably be in the middle-bottom (if not absolute bottom) of the page no matter how much you upvote it. do you have any evidence for this? because your whole post sounds a little paranoid - not just the last paragraph. In fact a lot of your recent posts seem to have taken this kind of tone. I don't mention this out of spite, but out of concern. I hope you're ok.

michaelochurch 13y ago
do you have any evidence for this? Yes. I didn't talk about it until I confirmed it. Someone who knows a lot of people in the YC-sphere also confirmed. Karma scores of others' posts don't appear here, but they are available (on old posts) using https://www.hnsearch.com/ https://www.hnsearch.com/ . If you look at your placement of an old post (> 3 months) and find yourself at/near the bottom but have the highest-rated comment, then you're on rankban (rankban seems to apply to threads that originated before it was applied). You can also check for slowban empirically by comparing latency while logged in to what you get in Incognito mode.
- lgieron 13y ago
  It is a pretty serious accusation. I wish you'd prepare a pdf or something where ou state your case. Most people don't have time to dig into that themselves.
  - michaelochurch 13y ago
    It's a huge accusation. Not one I'd make lightly. At first I was furious about it, that I'd wasted so much time into comments that would almost always float to the bottom (when I used to have a ~50% top comment rate, that went to zero). Now I'm more flattered by it: it means that PG is trying to censor what I say-- that my comments are important enough to merit a personal rankban. I also have good reasons to believe that PG is making the decision because he's been pressured by others in the VC world. I don't know that they specifically mentioned me (or even know who I am, for that matter) but he's definitely been told to "do something" about the formerly prominent anti-VC posts that tend to do well here (excluding rankban).
    - BlackDeath3 13y ago
      I notice that you avoided the implicit question in the above post: can you provide proof of your accusation?

by phpnode 13y ago

michaelochurch 13y ago

do you have any evidence for this? Yes. I didn't talk about it until I confirmed it. Someone who knows a lot of people in the YC-sphere also confirmed. Karma scores of others' posts don't appear here, but they are available (on old posts) using https://www.hnsearch.com/ https://www.hnsearch.com/ . If you look at your placement of an old post (> 3 months) and find yourself at/near the bottom but have the highest-rated comment, then you're on rankban (rankban seems to apply to threads that originated before it was applied). You can also check for slowban empirically by comparing latency while logged in to what you get in Incognito mode.

lgieron 13y ago
It is a pretty serious accusation. I wish you'd prepare a pdf or something where ou state your case. Most people don't have time to dig into that themselves.
- michaelochurch 13y ago
  It's a huge accusation. Not one I'd make lightly. At first I was furious about it, that I'd wasted so much time into comments that would almost always float to the bottom (when I used to have a ~50% top comment rate, that went to zero). Now I'm more flattered by it: it means that PG is trying to censor what I say-- that my comments are important enough to merit a personal rankban. I also have good reasons to believe that PG is making the decision because he's been pressured by others in the VC world. I don't know that they specifically mentioned me (or even know who I am, for that matter) but he's definitely been told to "do something" about the formerly prominent anti-VC posts that tend to do well here (excluding rankban).
  - BlackDeath3 13y ago
    I notice that you avoided the implicit question in the above post: can you provide proof of your accusation?