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Re:Noah Kagan: How the Top Social Networks got their Start by rms on Thursday May 22, 2008 @04:16AM (#196996)
Do you have an email address? I am impressed that you managed to cheat the system rather well, get noticed, and not be banned. Hopefully you understand the way it works now.

This community here is great in that the system works and the best content makes it to the front page. Generally the community is offended by the notion that anyone would ever actively solicit votes for a story rather than letting the system decide. It's basically a taboo topic.

News.YC is at the opposite end of the spectrum as digg, where secret cabals of top ranked diggers choose the stories on the front page.

Anyways, please send me an email or post yours in your profile so we could talk about social media. There is a feature on this site where your email address is only available to site admins. You have to put in a despammed version in your about me.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100

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Re:Noah Kagan: How the Top Social Networks got their Start by crxnamja on Thursday May 22, 2008 @02:17PM (#197376)
news [at] okdork.com is the best way to reach me.

i honestly don't think i cheated the system. i didn't realize it was illegal to ask people who read yc to upvote my articles. i should read the small print next time:) plus my article was on the homepage for about 5 seconds which isn't useful to the readers or myself.

i guess next time i will just have a few votes to get on the homepage and if it sucks then it won't go anywhere.

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