I wholeheartedly disagreed until I saw your point (I think). The post still has your name beside it and you disagree with someone changing your words. While I don't find it a big deal with this, I kinda agree in spirit. Maybe the poster name should be changed too. However, folks would then be upset about not getting their sweet, sweet karma.
That you expect HN to work the way you want it to, instead of the way it already worked when you joined. You've been here 8 years, enough time to familiarize yourself with what's in the package. Besides that, a moderator going out of their way to mention that they have made an edit to your post, as well as specifically what edit they made is more than you could reasonably expect, and you already have that. Anything over and beyond that is pure entitlement.
Moderator time is more precious than your time, if you feel that you've been wronged then you could have just said what you thought was wrong rather than to demand a fix to your liking. This is further amplified by the fact that you have a major stake in the property whose link you posted here. Your website, your rules, HN -> HN's rules.
- "you expect"- wrong! - at no point did i express my "expectation". I was voicing my opinion on how I think the UX should work for this use case
- "instead of the way it already worked when you joined." Just because it worked this way does not mean it is right.
- "HN -> HN's rules." Yes, Captain Obvious. this does not mean their rules make sense and certainly does not mean a user voicing an opinion on how the rules should be changed is entitled.
This "captain obvious" stuff isn't helping you; it's just going to get everything you have to say flagged. You sound upset. I don't think I understand why --- having links replaced is totally standard HN practice, happens all the time, and works to the overall benefit of the community. But I don't have to understand why you're upset for you to feel that way. Rather, I'd just say, step away from HN for a bit until you can write with a clearer head.
i do get where they're coming from. right now we rely on dang and other mods (do they even exist?) doing the right thing in terms of making benign and beneficial changes to the linked story and being visible about making those changes. i've certainly seen communities where this trust ended up being abused due to scale or change in moderatorship.
it would be nicer from a transparency perspective to make these kinds of changes easily auditable by adding an "edited by" in the full page or a dedicated audit log. it would strike a balance between letting moderators improve the community while improving transparency at the system level.
HN's UX here is good. Stories are community property; they do not belong to the person who submits them. It's a basic rule of the site, and a very good one.
the HN admin changed the link I posted. this is unethical - You are fundamentally changing what I posted. As a product manager here is a better solution - A.) Add a clear indicator that admin changed the link to redirect B.) Delete my link and post yours.
Waiting for the dang smackdown reply to this comment. You posted a secondary source (typically these get redirected to the primary source for any story), and used the editorialized title from the original journalist as your post title. Pretty commonplace on HN to correct these things so we can discuss the facts, not the reductive analysis of what someone writes about the primary source.
OP has a stake in the company whose link was posted, so it goes a bit deeper than that. That particular source had already been flagged as problematic taking the number of 'dead' links into account.
Even worse than I thought. OP should probably get a warning if not ban that site outright. Especially since they're clearly attempting to astroturf HN.
Thank you. it took a couple of hours. I used a nocode tool called kgbase.co. Also I am a cofounder of thinknum.com where we scrape job listings (and other data) for hedge funds, large companies so I set up cron script to pull data from our API into KgBase's API
Very useful feedback - Thank you. We run a startup, Thinknum.com, that scrapes all types of data for Hedge funds or business intelligence folks so we get the data from there.
Will iterate on feedback and figure out why Techstars links are not working.
it is a self-selected sample - which is a sample. Ofcourse it introduces seld self-selection bias. However a vast majority of studies on race in the US rely on self reported data (for thical and legal reasons) and include some element of self selection bias. The end.
if the article was claiming to show "intent" to discriminate then it would have been misleading. I wrote the article and I never claimed to show intent. I was just showing what as effectively happening and for that the diffeerences in ownership of eligible companies by race is irrelevant.
