Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

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From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs.

Also, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

I've deleted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506575 now because technically it wasn't a job ad. You can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs the sort of thing that usually appears in this category.

> because technically it wasn't a job ad

Were steps taken to disincentivise Gauntlet AI from posting a similar not-a-job-ad again? If there's one company that will gladly exploit that gray area, it's them.

"Email us" versus a public Ask HN does not exude confidence in stopping a HN-backed scammer.

Thankfully, theres enough sites and accounts that scrape HN, that all new posts are immediately posted via @hackersnews@mastodon.cesium.pw

So damage control (ala deletion/hiding) can be found.

Now, YC should consider cleaning their ranks from companies that use their name for legitimacy in running scam operations.

There are mirrors of HN all over the place, and nobody is trying to hide anything.

We don't do things that aren't defensible to the community [1], unless we make a mistake, and in that case we acknowledge, correct it, and try not to make it again. As we've been at this for 15+ years, it happens more rarely than it used to.

There are a couple of reasons why we run HN this way. First, the only value HN has is the community, meaning community goodwill is our only real asset. Second, if we don't, we never hear the end of it until we do, and operant conditioning is a hell of a drug. [2]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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