I was wondering why one of the fastest upvoted articles on HN, ever, was on second page. Now i know, and of course. YC , like other tech firms want to keep their business interest in China come to fruition.
Surely they must account for too many anti-votes coming from a single region?
Not sure what we're being accused of here. To rattle off some things in the general vicinity: we didn't touch this story, other than to remove the flamewar penalty that HN's software put on it. That's not because the software got it wrong—it got it right. But we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
Re "want to keep their business interest in China come to fruition"—ending one's business interest in China is a strange way to do that. How devious they must be!
Surely they must account for too many anti-votes coming from a single region?