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I am glad to see that I wasn't the only one who felt that IH were gaming the system and was treating their stories as spam.

It does make me suspicious as to if HN admins treat YC alumni more equal than others.

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We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either.

> We try hard not to do that. But it's tricky because many YC alumni do interesting work and/or are valued HN contributors and we certainly don't want to penalize them either.

This sounds like an admission of guilt to me.

goodbye.

Wondered why this got downvoted, then noticed that the throwaway I was replying to edited his comment. The original comment was basically "I'm done with HN! Goodbye!"

Of course not, and I trust most HN readers not to take it that way. We like to be open about how we approach these questions.

Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned. That hasn't happened. The posts consistently end up on the front page because people like the site...

> Moderation on HN is very strict. If Indie Hackers were 'gaming' the system, they'd be banned.

If the voting data were available, one of us could prove the other wrong. As they are not, it is my opinion vs yours.

It's HN's opinion vs yours.

Banning on HN doesn't quite work in so off-with-their-heads a way. There are many forms of gaming HN; the spectrum runs from outright evil all the way to accidental. We try to make the punishment fit the crime, so in general a site not being banned doesn't mean they didn't try to game the system.

As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni.

Stripe is but as far as I know HN admins can't see the future.

> As far as I know IndieHackers is not YC alumni.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csallen

"...and YC alum (W2011)"

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