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		codewright on Jan 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? It's pretty well known. Don't know that I'd use the term voter ring though. It's just that if you're in a YC batch or an alum you get posts, especially job posts, boosted. I wouldn't pay much mind to this talk of mechanisms and gaming systems, sounds like post-hoc reasoning by outsiders.

tptacek on Jan 4, 2013 [–]

There is more than that going on.

codewright on Jan 5, 2013 | [–]

Not that I'm surprised, but I have to imagine it would take the form of the quasi-benign backslapping I saw on Reddit.

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