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The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator

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Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator

#11
It might not be so much censorship as it is competing with other articles that for whatever reason rise up the ranks quicker.

I don't know if it's corrupt or not but I advocated a no-vote tagged-based stream system whereby article of interest to you will be seen and not fall off the stream as quickly.

Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator

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It might not be so much censorship as it is competing with other articles that for whatever reason rise up the ranks quicker. I don't know if it's corrupt or not but I advocated a no-vote tagged-based stream system whereby article of interest to you will be seen and not fall off the stream as quickly.

It is a well known practice ycombinator favors and has deals to make sure sites like techcrunch and company who i think it' safe to say we're all sick of getting bombarded with links from are allowed to post as many as they like while smaller potentially more relevant sites are banned after only a couple posts.

stop spamming us you're wasting your time

Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator

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I'm sick of seeing 100 techcrunch articles spammed on here daily. I wish they wouldn't censor the smaller site in favor of the big ones but that's been a long established practice here for some time now. It's ruining this site in many ways.

Favoritism is corruption. I wonder if any money is changing hands?

Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator

#15

They censored my blog too and it was very thoughtfully written and relevant content. And I only posted up 2 links to different articles within a a week's time frame. I guess that was too much for them. Stop spamming us you're wasting your time. I was however allowed to post up over 100 hundred techcrunch links in that same time frame however even to the most irrelevant asinine articles. But techcrunch are allowed to…

Two new accounts. Both with John in the handle, both with the exact same, irrelevant comment: Stop spamming us you're wasting your time.

I posted three vaguely HN related posts from my own blog within a two week period and they all made it through and even made it to the top of the front page with all three. I've never posted a techcruch link and I've seen dozens of small, independent blogs and article sites reach the front page.

Until some evidence is posted I'll assume your trolling along with your other fake accounts.

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