My Daily Lesson in Hacker News Etiquette

1 pointby jannesblobela day ago3 comments

gnabgiba day ago
This was answered by mods in your recent post Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? (238 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307306
Dang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316181
> It's true that HN sponsors Launch HNs (and Show HNs) by YC startups.
tomhow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322023
> Apart from job postings and Launch HNs, YC-funded startups don't have access to any information or influence that isn't available to anyone else.
tomhow21 hours ago
If you want to demo your project to the HN community you can just email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll give you feedback, both on your project (well, our perception of it) and your post. We do this multiple times per day.
I don't see what the grounds for complaint is here.
- jannesblobel16 hours ago
  I didn't mean to complain at all. It was just an observation I wanted to share. I didn't know that HN did that.
  - tomhow15 hours ago
    OK :)
    Posts like that - i.e., meta discussion, or posting on HN to ask or state something about HN - are best avoided.
    These things are easy enough to find out via HN Search or Google or minimaxir’s unofficial documentation, and failing that, anyone can email us and we usually reply quickly.
    It’s important that posts on HN have some combination of thought, effort and substance to them.
mtmaila day ago
Afaik 'Launch HN' is reserved for YCombinator companies. It gives an automatic ranking boost and guaranteed to hit the frontpage. HN is run by YCombinator. Not sure how the website figures out who belongs to YCombinator. I've read there's a username list and the names show up in a different color so users recognize each other.