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Envoy, modern visitor registration

9 points by kamalfariz 12y ago

avree 12y ago
Unsure why this is HN-worthy. It is a startup website that lets you log into companies you are visiting.
- sleepyhead 12y ago
  Startups are not HN-worthy?
  - avree 12y ago
    Every startup is not HN-worthy; when there's a particular aspect, feature, or discussion to be had, great. When it's the actual website with absolutely no commentary being submitted by employees... not HN-worthy, yeah. This is a discussion and interest site, not Product Hunt.
herbig 12y ago
I find it suspicious when something is posted by someone at the company and immediately receives a bunch of upvotes, with no commentary. Maybe there is useful discussion to be had about the product, but let the democracy of the HN voting system determine that, before having a bunch of employees upvote it to the front.
- cyphunk 12y ago
  I'm guessing the reason this topic gets any attention is because the company just secured funding. But, actually the proximity between this and that post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634) is pretty glaring. This type of subtle gaming of the system happens a lot of HN and Reddit. But here there is probably less budget to monitor and moderate.
  - dang 12y ago
    We watch for subtle gaming like hawks, because (a) we know the community hates it, and (b) we're part of the community. Look at my comments from yesterday alone (admittedly a big day for anti-gaming commentary): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608 Most of this is caught by software. That's not to say that we catch all of it, of course. Also, Reddit has orders of magnitude more quantity to deal with. I imagine the challenges are different at that level, and probably a lot harder.

9 points by kamalfariz 12y ago

avree 12y ago

Unsure why this is HN-worthy. It is a startup website that lets you log into companies you are visiting.

sleepyhead 12y ago
Startups are not HN-worthy?
- avree 12y ago
  Every startup is not HN-worthy; when there's a particular aspect, feature, or discussion to be had, great. When it's the actual website with absolutely no commentary being submitted by employees... not HN-worthy, yeah. This is a discussion and interest site, not Product Hunt.

herbig 12y ago

I find it suspicious when something is posted by someone at the company and immediately receives a bunch of upvotes, with no commentary. Maybe there is useful discussion to be had about the product, but let the democracy of the HN voting system determine that, before having a bunch of employees upvote it to the front.

cyphunk 12y ago
I'm guessing the reason this topic gets any attention is because the company just secured funding. But, actually the proximity between this and that post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634) is pretty glaring. This type of subtle gaming of the system happens a lot of HN and Reddit. But here there is probably less budget to monitor and moderate.
- dang 12y ago
  We watch for subtle gaming like hawks, because (a) we know the community hates it, and (b) we're part of the community. Look at my comments from yesterday alone (admittedly a big day for anti-gaming commentary): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608 Most of this is caught by software. That's not to say that we catch all of it, of course. Also, Reddit has orders of magnitude more quantity to deal with. I imagine the challenges are different at that level, and probably a lot harder.