Comment by throw10920
4 hours ago
There are known groups that coordinate to flag things on HN? That seems extraordinarily silly. If you wanted to do influence ops, there are much more rewarding targets, like Reddit and X. Are you sure that the flagging that you see isn't just people removing articles that violate the guidelines (or lead to comments that violate them)?
Are you aware that people who are part of Ycombinator, as in "founders", have special HN accounts, and are able to see who else has a financial incentive to hype up startups and YC and insist there is nothing wrong with them funding multiple companies that literally plagiarize each other or just slap a logo on top of VSCode hooked up to ChatGPT, or other people that are literally personal friends and collaborators with Elon?
What else do you call such a secret in group who all have aligned financial interests and are externally anonymous?
YC sells this feature as an advantage of being funded by YC.
That's not what I asked. I asked:
> There are known groups that coordinate to flag things on HN?
Your response is unrelated to my question.