Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs

Re:Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for paral... by gwbas1c on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:35AM (#27882489)

> However, it would still leave open the problem of editing work

Quick thought: What happens if you only minimally edit the posts, but instead brand them as "sponsored?" Maybe even tweak the colors on the sponsored posts?

Perhaps start each post with some kind of boilerplate disclaimer. Something like, "Hacker News is sponsored by YCombinator. Every YCombinator startup gets an opportunity to have a 'Launch HN' post. Today, Hacker News is brought to you by..."

(And then timebox your editing to XX minutes / company.)

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Re:Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for paral... by dang on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:18PM (#27885042)

I think HN would "see through a cheap ploy like that", as Monty Python once said about God.

People come here for interesting things to read. The point of the editing is to make the Launch HN texts interesting rather than annoying*. Adding disclaimers wouldn't make ad copy less annoying, so I doubt it would help. It's a clever idea though.

* though a lot of commenters are saying they're too long ("longwinded" and "bedtime story" are two terms sticking in my mind)...maybe we've been trying too hard.

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