YCombinator favoritism? ( Gitlab was part of YCombinator 2015 )
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761
Edit: Number 22 yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23
Must have missed it. Seems fine to me.
Now there are three threads; those two and this one, which is currently on the front page. I'm happy to merge them, but am not sure which submission should win.
Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 has the most substantive discussion of the fresh threads, so I guess we'll undupe that one and merge. Give me a few minutes because it's a bit tricky when there are more than two.
Edit 2: Ok, I've merged all the comments into the thread except for the ones which were explicitly about this post in a way that wouldn't make sense over there.
edit: Thank you @dang!
But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion.
Moderation is hard.
That's exactly right! A subtle observation.
We tend to demote follow-up or copycat posts for that very reason. Not as much in a case like this, though, because of the rule that we moderate less, not more, when a YC startup is involved. I just posted about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983.
Personally, I did flag the post you mentioned, because that same thing (discussing introducing telemetry) was on the front page yesterday (Yesterday), for most of the day (or, at least, for most of the US/Pacific day).
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a policy where if an "item" (a topic, a post, whatever) hits the front page, then it should not appear again immediately after (unless there's some new development).