Comment by gyardley
10 years ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but I voted for Pinboard and only Pinboard because I wanted to maximize the impact of my vote for Pinboard.
If that's what you mean when you say 'the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups', then I think you've unfairly confused my deliberate intentions with 'vote brigading'.
Things turned out exactly how I expected they would here, but it's still disappointing.
I'm in the same situation; I lurk HN daily, and voted for Pinboard only.
I hope single-votes are not being called out as part of some 'vote brigading' conspiracy :\
Throw me in this pool. I lurk frequently, rarely comment or contribute.
But I made a single vote, explicitly for Pinboard, and had not seen his tweets. I probably look like a voting scheme. But it was a legitimate and intentional vote because I believe in Maciej and what he could do to grow his business and improve YC through the fellowship.
> Things turned out exactly how I expected they would here, but it's still disappointing.
Yeah, this is disappointing, but also completely predictable.
same voting pattern for me as well, 1 vote for pinboard