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Comment by achow | Hacker News Reader

Surprised that this post is at no.1!

The content does not have much depth and seems to be a build up for a silver bullet solution (author's workshop).

In my Lean Product Management workshops you’ll learn how to develop product strategy, research your market, set goas, prioritize ideas...

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I suspect this post was promoted via a voting ring.

I looked at the data and that's not likely. The early upvoters were all well-established, legit users with no obvious connection between them.

Sadly the front page is subjected to manual steering from HN mods. This is most likely how we get submissions like this to be successful here.

https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html

The suggestion that this is a post the mods would positively influence is fairly ridiculous.

If you read carefully, you'll see my comment says: "posts like this" instead of "this post".

If "like" means "this statement means nothing" then it's best not to write the statement at all.

We actually downweighted this post somewhat.

Re "manual steering", that's just another way of saying "moderated" or "curated" (or, some people's favorite, "censored") - no? HN is a curated site and always has been: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We don't tend to boost submissions like the OP though.

If you want to see the sort that we do boost, there are lots of examples at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool and https://news.ycombinator.com/invited.

What is listed at /pool? I haven't seen that one.

Edit: found it, it's probably the second chance pool: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...

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