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Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

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Post by paulnelligan »

mixmax wrote: post #58
tptacek wrote: post #31

Jiminy! People: he's just saying I'm too busy to fix this the right way today, so you'll all have to make do with this band-aid . Can we stop with the star-crossed imaginings of startup questions lost to the ages because of karma thresholds? If you have a real product you want to rate, and you can't post it, just find someone who posts regularly and who has their contact info in their profile. Then: send them an emai…

If you do have a startup and are new to the site you're welcome to send me an e-mail (it's in my profile). I don't mind spending a few minutes looking through your site and posting an RMS on your behalf if everything is legit. Be aware that I'll look on archive.org to see whether your site has been up for five years :-)

emailing you now, thanks

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

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Post by nickfromseattle »

markkat wrote: post #2

I 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.

As a non-technical, first time entrepreneur I am finding it difficult to add value to HN. I have been lurking for ~6 months, a member for 1 month and I made my first post yesterday.

With that said, I have learned a ton here and HN is easily the best resource I have ever found on any subject.

edit:

Potential solution: require participation in other user's RMS before you can post your own RMS. Even though I am non technical and don't have much entrepreneurial experience, I can still give an opinion from the view of a customer.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

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Post by blahedo »

wushupork wrote: post #42
RealGeek wrote: post #10

So a hacker who has been reading HN everyday while coding his product, but does not post often; is not allowed to post RMS anymore?

I'm in your boat. I read HN pretty religiously but don't have much time to comment or follow up on comments. Every time I even think about doing that I'd almost always rather spend more time obsessing about my product. Thus I barely have any karma points. But every once in a while, I like to post my latest project.

You "barely have any karma points"?? Your profile says you have 453... that's going to be far, far, far over any threshold pg is likely to set.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

#105

Post by AgentConundrum »

Revisor wrote: post #89
AgentConundrum wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't, actually. I've got comparable karma (221) after about two years, and I can't even consistently downvote items. I noticed down arrows a while ago for comments, but recently I've noticed that they only appear on certain comments, and others are upvote only. My assumption has been that there is some sort of inflation at play. Not that I'm complaining of course. I think I've only used my downvote powers once…

You cannot downvote comments older than 24 hours. Submissions can't be downvoted at all.

Odd, I didn't think the post I referred to was that old.

I guess it also makes sense not to have submission downvotes, since the really bad posts will just get killed, and the iffy posts just won't get enough points to get very visible.

Thanks for the explanation.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

#107

Post by _b8r0 »

boredguy8 wrote: post #97
vessenes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm reminded of the first time I saw PG speak, it was on bayespam at MIT -- he noted that if SPAM can come up with interesting and engaging email, he'll happily read it. I imagine that as soon as someone is posting interesting content, RMS or not, PG and others won't think of them as 'spammers' anymore, rather contributors.

"Mission fucking accomplished" http://xkcd.com/810/

You sir, win this thread.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

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Post by qeorge »

nickfromseattle wrote: post #102
markkat wrote: post #2

I 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.

As a non-technical, first time entrepreneur I am finding it difficult to add value to HN. I have been lurking for ~6 months, a member for 1 month and I made my first post yesterday. With that said, I have learned a ton here and HN is easily the best resource I have ever found on any subject. edit: Potential solution: require participation in other user's RMS before you can post your own RMS. Even though I am non tech…

If one makes a habit of participating in RMS threads and giving thoughtful feedback, I'm sure the karma threshold would take care of itself. Good idea.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

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Post by dkokelley »

nickfromseattle wrote: post #102
markkat wrote: post #2

I 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.

As a non-technical, first time entrepreneur I am finding it difficult to add value to HN. I have been lurking for ~6 months, a member for 1 month and I made my first post yesterday. With that said, I have learned a ton here and HN is easily the best resource I have ever found on any subject. edit: Potential solution: require participation in other user's RMS before you can post your own RMS. Even though I am non tech…

Surely you have a background in something unique or interesting, that others here don't have. At the very least, you have your perspective. I don't think it's difficult to provide insightful, valuable content to HN, in both submissions and comments. I've noticed that the topics here tend to rotate over time (meaning one week is all hard core programming, and the next week is boot strapping). Also, check out the new section, where the submissions tend to be more varied (in my experience). Find a topic or two that you have something to contribute to and comment on it.

Re: "Rate My Startup" Post Policy

#110

Post by sswam »

Can't we have a 'this is spam' button? I guess it's not much bother if each spam is only read by one or two people before it's trashed / moved to the 'spam' section. Perhaps there could be a karma threshold before you're allowed to mark something as spam. This would solve the problem for all types of spam rather than just for RMS spam.
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