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dang | on: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
We just found out about this story and the submissions of it. It looks like it didn't make the front page because it set off HN's voting ring detector.

Mods didn't touch either thread except (1) we merged the duplicate discussions and (2) we rolled back the voting ring penalty so that the story would be on the frontpage.

This is in keeping with the principle that we moderate stories less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is part of the story. That's been the case since the beginning, and I've posted about it dozens of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

sebmellen | parent | next
Respectfully, I think there may be an issue with your voting ring detection, which is that if multiple people try to submit the same article and are redirected to an existing post and they upvote it, that might be setting off the voting ring alert. Can you check that?

I would imagine that's what happened here.

dang | root | parent
That's definitely not what happened here. The data would be quite different in that case.

Edit: 10% of the votes came from resubmissions of the URL. The other 90% came from other sources.

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bigballsack | parent
> we moderate stories less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is part of the story

Nobody believes that, HN does extensive damage control, banning, flagging with alt accounts, specific story suppression, propaganda, and outright censorship.

This comment itself will be censored for countering your narrative not because it’s too toxic for the precious eyes of readers or violates any generally accepted ethics, but because censorship and propaganda are weapons of choice for an abusive unintelligent maniac like yourself.

dang | root | parent
Having been at this for 12 years I am pretty sure that the bulk of the community does in fact believe us when we say that, and even when we say other things as well.

There are a number of reasons why this is the case. One is that it is true. Another is that we've always treated the good will of the community as by far the biggest asset—in fact, the only asset—that HN has.