The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
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Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#2Good question.
Why does Hackernews censor small blogs and not big ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?
Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently blacklisted?
Honest question
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#3Good question. Why does Hackernews censor small blogs and not big ones? Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here? Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the…
Honest question? Really?
What makes you think that small blogs are censored?
The assumptions hidden in question shows such a misunderstanding of what goes on around here, the mind reels.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#4They 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 spam for more traffic than they need and us normal folk are not.
It's too bad ycominator mods engage in such deceitful adn crooked internet politics, i also wonder if there is any money exchanging hands.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#5I believe it, this type of corruption goes on all the time here.
Personally I wish it would stop, I thought Ycombinator was supposed to give a voice to the young and up and coming sites and not continuously allow the same already big sites to keep blog spamming their content in order to maintain their traffic.
I'm also SO BEYOND sick and tired of seeing one thousand tech crunch links per day while the more interesting and unique smaller blog articles are banished for being considered spam by the mods here.
Very disgusting policies indeed.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#6I don't know what they mean by "censored". Do they mean "not voted up" or "flagged to death"?
They don't give examples of links that were wrongly "censored", so we cannot tell whether they really were wrongly censored, or whether they were flagged for being off-topic or spam, or whether they merely weren't interesting enough to be upvoted.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#7Did you get the Stop spamming us you're wasting your time. even though the content was not spam and relevant?
It's a well known fact ycombinator is a mainstream source to publicize and repromote day over day the same larger "in the in" blogs and to censor the smaller ones even though the majority of the readership is sick and tired of getting techcrunch articles shoved in their face 50 times per day.
Welcome to the corrupt world of moderation and shameless promotion that is hackernews.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#8I don't know what they mean by "censored". Do they mean "not voted up" or "flagged to death"? They don't give examples of links that were wrongly "censored", so we cannot tell whether they really were wrongly censored, or whether they were flagged for being off-topic or spam, or whether they merely weren't interesting enough to be upvoted.
The accounts of the OP and all critical comments were created some minutes ago. I wouldn't trust them too much.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#9I believe it, this type of corruption goes on all the time here.
Personally I wish it would stop, I thought Ycombinator was supposed to give a voice to the young and up and coming sites and not continuously allow the same already big sites to keep blog spamming their content in order to maintain their traffic.
I'm also SO BEYOND sick and tired of seeing one thousand tech crunch links per day while the more interesting and unique smaller blog articles are banished for being considered spam by the mods here.
Very disgusting policies indeed.
Re: The corrupt moderation policy of HN and Y Combinator
#10Good question, why can techcrunch post unlimited amounts of articles and others get censored for only posting a couple.
I'm sick of seeing techcrunch articles on there it's ruining this site.