[mystraline]

"Email us" versus a public Ask HN does not exude confidence in stopping a HN-backed scammer.

Thankfully, theres enough sites and accounts that scrape HN, that all new posts are immediately posted via @[e-mail]

So damage control (ala deletion/hiding) can be found.

Now, YC should consider cleaning their ranks from companies that use their name for legitimacy in running scam operations.

[dang]

There are mirrors of HN all over the place, and nobody is trying to hide anything.

We don't do things that aren't defensible to the community [1], unless we make a mistake, and in that case we acknowledge, correct it, and try not to make it again. As we've been at this for 15+ years, it happens more rarely than it used to.

There are a couple of reasons why we run HN this way. First, the only value HN has is the community, meaning community goodwill is our only real asset. Second, if we don't, we never hear the end of it until we do, and operant conditioning is a hell of a drug. [2]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...