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Comment by saisrirampur

11 hours ago

That wasn’t my intention though to mention my workplace multiple times for the sake of PR. Try to avoid being that, atleast on hn. :)

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direwolf20  8 hours ago

Unless you have YC funding. Conflicts of interest go brrr! HN doesn't even try to hide it.

  • tomhow  7 hours ago

    We do the opposite, in fact [1]. Negative stories about YC-funded companies (or YC itself) are given greater visibility than equivalent stories about non-YC-related entities.

    When YC-funded companies are featured in Launch HN or Show HN posts, it's clearly denoted in the title or top-text. YC-funded companies don't get preferential treatment in the rankings for any type of post other than Launch HN posts.

    ClickHouse isn't a YC-funded company. We don't penalize people for mentioning their employer in the comments unless it's blatantly promotional, in which case it breaks the guideline against promotional posting, and such comments should be flagged by the community.

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