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Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by jgrahamc on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:36AM (#23976239)
I wouldn’t be surprised if when the CTO posts something on HN that a chat/email doesn’t go out to let everyone in the company know to visit the article on Hacker News with the unwritten but implied suggestion to upvote it.

That would be a bad idea as HN has a voting ring detector. If you look at my post history you'll see which Cloudflare blogs got upvoted and which went nowhere.

Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by coder543 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#23976455)
> Of course, this comment will get downvoted, which just proves the point.

No, it really doesn't "prove the point." Your entire comment is violating HN guidelines[1] left and right, so of course it is getting downvoted (and flagged), but not because you've uncovered some grand conspiracy.

The cloudflare posts that get upvoted are just actually interesting to the HN target audience, myself included.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by zzz61831 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:23PM (#23977384)
> The cloudflare posts that get upvoted are just actually interesting to the HN target audience, myself included.

And it would have been fine, if it was you who submitted them, not the CTO, who uses HN primarily for promotion, which is something guidelines explicitly forbid [1]. But mods obviously allow corporations to violate the guidelines and it's getting pretty annoying.

[1] Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by avidal on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:45AM (#23976337)
As far as "vote rings" are concerned, the CTO (and others) would emphatically remind people not to upvote to ensure we didn't end up getting flagged.
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by almost_usual on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:39AM (#23976266)
I thought Cloudflare switched to hCaptcha?
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by mattl on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:59AM (#23976475)
hCaptcha's accessibility is poor. You have to make an account to login and set a cookie if you're unable to work with their image captcha.
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by alexnewman on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:35PM (#23978442)
HCaptcha founder here.

We think this is by far the most accessible solution: for example, audio captchas discriminate against all the people with auditory processing difficulties as well as some visual impairment.

Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support by mattl on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:50PM (#23978618)
There doesn't seem to be anywhere on the widget that actually tells people to go to your website and register.