[dmor]

1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue.

2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped.

3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw this post while there is still time.

[kevinelliott]

Hell yes! Well said. This makes me feel much less jealous of all the conference hoes running around acting like you need to be at a conference to get great things done.

[philco]

I've been suffering from the same thing. The posts that make the front page stay on for a while, then get modded off without notice.

[robryan]

Most likely the voting ring, be very careful about submitting then telling everyone you know to go upvote it. Especially if they are sitting in the same office with the same IP.

[dmor]

Do you have any examples of submissions where it is happening?

[bluehat]

Happened to me this morning with the Coca-Cola thing. Was around #6, got bombed to the mid-80's

[orangethirty]

Interesting. You openly admit to gaming HN by having people on you team vote on your submissions. Though I think it might not benefit you because this site has voting ring protections. Not knockin on you, because I do enjoy discovering about your posts on Twitter. Just making an observation.

Also, few people here have as much game as she does.

[dmor]

The bigger problem isn't really my team, it is my small circle of Hacker News reading friends. Turns out you can set off the voting ring without even realizing it, just because the same core group of people are listening to your status updated other places and hang out on the site. When I submit something here and don't tweet/FB post it until it already has some organic votes I don't seem to run into that problem.

There are two sides of this - getting readership and getting feedback when content really isn't good/interesting to this audience. Still learning, but I think I have a much better understand than I did a year ago.

[orangethirty]

I completely misunderstood your post, and did not take into account your network. I apologize for putting you in a bad light (it was not my purpose as I'm one of your readers).

At the moment, I don't use much social media to promote my posts. Due to me being lazy. Keeping track if all the networks is an issue even with the tools available. I cannot even fathom how much time you spend doing that. How about a post explaining it?

[yukoncornelius]

I appreciate your response, but I disagree with your normative advice.