Comment on Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN?parentComments−codewright13yIt's pretty well known. Don't know that I'd use the term voter ring though.It's just that if you're in a YC batch or an alum you get posts, especially job posts, boosted.I wouldn't pay much mind to this talk of mechanisms and gaming systems, sounds like post-hoc reasoning by outsiders.−tptacek13yThere is more than that going on.−codewright13yNot that I'm surprised, but I have to imagine it would take the form of the quasi-benign backslapping I saw on Reddit.
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It's pretty well known. Don't know that I'd use the term voter ring though.
It's just that if you're in a YC batch or an alum you get posts, especially job posts, boosted.
I wouldn't pay much mind to this talk of mechanisms and gaming systems, sounds like post-hoc reasoning by outsiders.
There is more than that going on.
Not that I'm surprised, but I have to imagine it would take the form of the quasi-benign backslapping I saw on Reddit.