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Title should be "77% of users surveyed...". User surveys seem like a really poor metric here. Also, being posted by the article creator, 12 upvotes and only 1
by herbig 12y ago
Title should be "77% of users surveyed...".
User surveys seem like a really poor metric here.
Also, being posted by the article creator, 12 upvotes and only 1 comment seems to suggest gaming the system.
- benologist 12y agoOP has a 100% success rate getting a bunch of upvotes which can be a sign of foul play: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=martin_tipgain https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=martin_tipgain And at least one account helping out with comments exclusively on his submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Kaibert123 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Kaibert123
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- jsonchen 12y agoYC founders usernames appear as a different color to other YC founders and some percentage of them probably upvote every post they see.
- Lidador 12y agoSo HN is an YC founders's bookmark site. Fool of me thinking this was a community.