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#18

Post by klez »

Care to present any evidence. Because what you say about posts moving down sounds not as an evidence to me...

Also what you say about the pyramid schemes doesn't present evidence.

I'm not saying that YC is absolutely innocent, but it is unless proven otherwise.

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#19

Post by ColinWright »

EDIT: The comment to which I replied got deleted, but I've retrieved it from my history so I can still make my reply:

    Sounds like a bunch of crap.

    Has this post been moderated? Can any moderators
    comment?

    Why is the article
         http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2908850
    on the front-page, and this article is not on the
    first four pages at all?

    They were both posted 1 hour ago, and this article
    has more votes then the other article?

    Seems random to me.
In my experience as a non-privileged user, it's not random. If average, ordinary, everyday readers of HN decide that an article or item is inappropriate for HN then they can, and will, flag it. The ranking of the item is penalized by flags. Thus if average, ordinary, everyday readers of HN decide an article or item is inappropriate, either by being spam, troll, off-topic or content-free, it will sink, often quite quickly.

I've seen it happen to items about YC companies, I've seen it happen to items about non-YC companies, I've seen it happen to items that can and should be of deep interest to any decent human being. Such items sank rapidly because the community decided they were off-topic, or content-free.

This person just seems both to have a specific interest, and a non-understanding of how things work.

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#20

Post by mkr-hn »

Getting your article to the top is all about building early momentum. It's easy to imagine a jail if you post at bad times or don't have an interesting title. I've submitted quite a few articles and have seen the difference.

No votes will get about 100 hits and an hour on the third or fourth page. One vote could propel you to page one or two with hundreds of hits. It's reasonable to project that it scales from there.

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