Comment by toyg
10 years ago
I voted for Pinboard during "Apply HN", then went about my business. I don't refresh the HN homepage every 5 minutes (well, not every day...) so there was a big chance I would miss the second poll if it hadn't been for the Pinboard twitter feed. In fact, at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"... The "voting ring" smear is just clutching at straws, really.
at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"
I exchanged a few emails with Dan, and based on those I can say that this is definitely not what happened. Rather to the contrary, he was concerned that having a poll among "leading candidates" would make it too easy to game.
You've just reinforced the point you're trying to dismiss.
How so? Reference to voting rings is clutching at straws... because it's something Dan was explicitly concerned about last week?
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