[aidanf]

Well last week we had a post about posterous adding markdown and syntax-highlighting and it got 99 points on the front-page. Now we have this post, about them adding the ability to create pages, on the front-page with 17 points after 1 hour.

I might be interested in hearing about major or innovative new features at posterous but these seem to me to be fairly standard features for a blogging platform and thus not very newsworthy. We don't get front-page stories every time wordpress or tumblr add a new minor feature.

So why are people upvoting this? Is it people who are posterous users and who are upvoting it as a sign of approval? Or people who want to show their support for posterous because they're a YC company. Or are there people who genuinely think that the fact that a blogging app now lets you create a page is really interesting tech news.

[djb_hackernews]

I'm pretty sure submissions about YC funded companies are juiced.

[rantfoil]

Keep in mind that there are 400+ YC founders out there now, and we roll deep. A lot of us do keep tabs on Hacker News and we do vote up and support our friends.

So no juice needed. Just regular voting.

[zhyder]

I'm not familiar with the term 'juice' but I think you admitted to what the GP was in spirit complaining about. I recognize there isn't any ill will here, and you're only naturally supporting your friends (of which you have more than most folks on HN), but this isn't very different from a voting ring on Digg.

I'm not complaining coz I'd do the same if I was in YC. HN is just like TechCrunch in that YC startups 'unfairly' get more exposure than non-YC ones. Building unfair advantages is essential to startup success.

[arach]

I'm pretty sure there is nothing unfair going on here. This is news.ycombinator.com and people who come here care about ycombinator companies. The YC related posts aren't bigger or any different from others and I think they are submitted the same way.

It's not YC doing anything, just us the audience clicking on the arrows.

[djb_hackernews]

I wasn't complaining. I enjoy this place a ton, but it's pretty obvious when a 20 minute old submission has 80 votes for it and zero comments. [citation needed]

[jjames]

It may not be interesting tech news but it is tech news relevant to the interests of those paying attention to the activities of startups.