[herbig]

I find it suspicious when something is posted by someone at the company and immediately receives a bunch of upvotes, with no commentary.

Maybe there is useful discussion to be had about the product, but let the democracy of the HN voting system determine that, before having a bunch of employees upvote it to the front.

[cyphunk]

I'm guessing the reason this topic gets any attention is because the company just secured funding. But, actually the proximity between this and that post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634) is pretty glaring. This type of subtle gaming of the system happens a lot of HN and Reddit. But here there is probably less budget to monitor and moderate.

[dang]

We watch for subtle gaming like hawks, because (a) we know the community hates it, and (b) we're part of the community. Look at my comments from yesterday alone (admittedly a big day for anti-gaming commentary):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8321378

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322608

Most of this is caught by software.

That's not to say that we catch all of it, of course. Also, Reddit has orders of magnitude more quantity to deal with. I imagine the challenges are different at that level, and probably a lot harder.