Maybe it's time to have spam url filter setup.
"Rate My Startup" Post Policy
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Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#62I like to see others people work. Sometimes RMSes are linking to things that are just weekend small projects, but still it is nice to publish them and ask for opinions of other members.
I think that spam posts will disappear in few minutes from the frontpage, because nobody votes them up. In this case a kind of collaborative filtering by HN community will do its work.
I believe that by not allowing new users to submit links is a radical approach. There are many kinds of users, for example I crated this account recently (because I lost my old password and did not find a way to recover it). Usually I visit this page 2-3 times a week just for reading. By forbidding new users to post the community will be divided in two classes "the privileged one" (those who have time to read and write comments) and "the rest" (no write access, because probably they do not have enough time for writing comments (my case)).
I think that "classical" approaches will minimize the spam. For example CAPTCHAS will stop spam-bots. And throwaway accounts may be limited by verifying email addresses of members.
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#63I'm new to HN and I wouldn't post my startup link, as I've yet to contribute enough to the community to earn the time other members would need to review my startup. That being said, I do believe that a karma threshold for RMS posts would be a valuable asset to HN.
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Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#64Perhaps in addition to the user's credentials you could analyze the url they are submitting. Has it been submitted before?
crazy idea: maybe also check to see when the domain was registered? more than a year old doesn't sound like a 'startup'. it could be another metric in the decision engine. in fact.... i sense a new startup/weekend project. 'spam link analyzer service' which incorporates user defined metrics (e.g. HN metrics)
No, a lot of people sit on good domains for years before doing anything with them.
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#65Maybe another section like the "new" section? But don't name it rms, that means something else on any hacker site.
Indeed I was phreaking out thinking pg was deleting Stallman's posts !! ;-)
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#66Perhaps in addition to the user's credentials you could analyze the url they are submitting. Has it been submitted before?
crazy idea: maybe also check to see when the domain was registered? more than a year old doesn't sound like a 'startup'. it could be another metric in the decision engine. in fact.... i sense a new startup/weekend project. 'spam link analyzer service' which incorporates user defined metrics (e.g. HN metrics)
I don't think it's a good idea as domains may be placeholders for quite a bit of time. Especially if startup is not a weekend project.
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but it's important that what qualifies as investment matters. Perhaps a function of comments, votes, submissions and time the account has been around. As an aside, how would we distinguish between RMS posts and regular posts? Would the spammers simply revert to normal posts? I think if this is the case then perhaps we should reconsider the goal. If the goal is to stop spam masquerading as RMS, then it seems…
You have almost 1000 karma. Do you have a startup you want to ask about? Try posting it; he's not going to kill it. Otherwise: what's the problem?
I don't care about my karma a great deal (although I've written about a personal karma-related goal before for me to gauge how engaged I am in this community, it's a guide for me rather than a score per se).
I care about other people's startups, but not spam.
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#68I think if a conclusion is made about the policy posting them somewhere easily noticible will really help readers like me. I was a passsive reader for this site for a while before I signed up which was also to get feedback on my site. I see the point about spammers and think its fair to ask readers to contribute but just that the policy should be clear to new users
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#69If RMS is getting so popular, how about creating a special section just for that type of posts?
Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
#70I don't think it is unreasonable to ask people to invest time in the community before they can request the community to invest time evaluating their product.
What about just requiring a certain number of active days being signed up? Is there data that shows spam is ever posted by long running users?
Poor for stopping spam. It's pretty easy to write a little bot that just logs in to ycombinator on an active basis. Data would be good though.