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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by toyg on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:22AM (#11634504)
I voted for Pinboard during "Apply HN", then went about my business. I don't refresh the HN homepage every 5 minutes (well, not every day...) so there was a big chance I would miss the second poll if it hadn't been for the Pinboard twitter feed. In fact, at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"... The "voting ring" smear is just clutching at straws, really.
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by cperciva on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:34AM (#11634530)
at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"

I exchanged a few emails with Dan, and based on those I can say that this is definitely not what happened. Rather to the contrary, he was concerned that having a poll among "leading candidates" would make it too easy to game.

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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by toyg on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:58AM (#11634582)
You've just reinforced the point you're trying to dismiss.
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by cperciva on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:15AM (#11634621)
How so? Reference to voting rings is clutching at straws... because it's something Dan was explicitly concerned about last week?
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by toyg on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:57AM (#11634879)
He got more votes in the first round alone than the "winner" in the second round, and twice that amount the second time. The will of the community was pretty clear the first time around, and it only got stronger when new hoops were added; this not just from votes but from comment threads. Invoking "voting fraud" is clutching at straws. Kevin didn't like him - fine, let's just say so and move on, it's their money and all, but don't try to hide behind some sort of hacking (eh) or fraud that never was.
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