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Comment by Aloisius | Hacker News Reader

  PandoDaily, in particular, is funded by VC firms that also fund tech startups.
  They're basically buying coverage for their investments

I would like to point out that HackerNews is run by a VC firm and YC alumni effectively get free coverage here.

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Yep, and that's one effect that I call "community myopia". This is a very wide spread phenomenon and it can be seen in almost every online community: members of a community have problems looking back at the support of their community and criticize it.

But the difference is that HN content is posted by any random user. It is not employing a staff of self righteous, egotistical reporters to post crap about YC firms.

The content on HN is more honest, if you will...

Except for the administratively front-paged YC ads.

Except for the easily distinguishable front-paged YC ads.

Disclosure matters. Everyone knows what is going on here.

Any coverage YC alum get is by us upvoting them, though.

Not the job postings, as far as I can tell.

But everyone gets free coverage hear. Not to mention great feedback. We don't have to ask anyone to submit ShowHN articles.

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