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by tazu 2y ago
> Pave is a YC-backed startup
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- hysan 2y agoI thought this was a joke comment but I went back after reading the comments and it’s now on the second page already.
- tazu 2y agoIt was at #3 for me and then suddenly demoted to the second page. It's pretty common for these touchy-YC threads.
- benterix 2y agoI really, really hope they don't.
- hoseja 2y agoAaaaand it's gone.
- benterix 2y agoThis makes me sad. @dang, can you comment on that? I appreciate your integrity.
- dang 2y agoWe didn't see it or demote it—it set off the flamewar detector. I've turned that off now, in keeping with the principle described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511529. p.s. @dang is a no-op - I only saw this thread because I was doing our standard review of the flamewar detector. If you want guaranteed* message delivery, hn@ycombinator.com is the only way. * Well, mostly guaranteed. I assume there are a few that fail to get noticed in the spam bin, though we check that pretty carefully.
- the_gorilla 2y agoThat's awfully convenient. You don't moderate the content, your flame war detector goes off, and the algorithm removes it for you.
- dredmorbius 2y agoHN, as with virtually all user-generated content sites, leverages both member actions and automation heavily. Annually HN sees about 150k active users, 400k stories, and 4m comments: <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective> (2021 retrespective by Whaly.io). It has one public-facing moderator (and apparently a few others who don't post publicly on the site). HN's own mods see very little of the total site content. Automation and member votes, flags, and vouches, as well as emails to the mods, are what keep HN humming. Not perfectly, but quite frankly one of the better-run online discussion sites, and one whose quality has remained remarkably steady over nearly 20 years. If you see something you think isn't right (bad content not flagged, good content flagged, whatever, email the mods, and they'll take a look. I do this a lot myself, usually with positive results.
- dang 2y agoI understand why people assume we do that, but actually we do the opposite—that is, we moderate less when YC or a YC startup is part of a story. There is plenty of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Note: we still moderate such threads. We just do it less than we otherwise would.