Here comes the mandatory, weekly, coincidentally very organic Tailscale post on HN frontpage, just like every other post on their blog (with one exception).
According to dang who admitted that most early upvotes come from the same users, this is totally natural and organic. I understand that Paul Graham posts are mandatory for some obvious reason to be on the frontpage, but what's the deal with this company?
There is no accusation, you're just playing with words to deflect the situation and make it on me instead on the real issue here which is about a company that had more frontpage posts of free positive publicity than most FAANG companies in the last month with a staggering 100% hit rate.
The "every" claim is correct if you subtract this one exception https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22618517 which happens to be the least interesting post that really won't do much help for the company. Otherwise I stated all links above and you won't reply to it. And the real question that you still won't answer, how many very young/unknown companies have their posts on the HN's frontpage more than 4 times in less than a month with a 100% hit rate? give me other examples so that we know this is really so natural.
Trolling how? You banned me for saying the truth and I just used my other account to say it again out loud. You're favoring a certain people over the rest of us. There are literally tens of thousands of founders and entrepreenures here, each and every one of them put their blood and sweat for years into something he belives is the most important thing for the world and not even 1% of their posts get to the frontpage after years of trying. Tailscale's posts, very surprisingly yet coincidentally, get to the front page every single time except for exactly one exception.
These are the posts and all of them got to the front page within minutes by accounts that do not belong to the founders even though the founders very _coincidentally_ happen to exist during the submissions and reply to comments
Again, my argument is simple, how can EVERY post about any certain thing (not just for a _for-profit_ company like Tailscale but in general) can go to the frontpage within the first minutes every time for more than 10 times in a row over the short course of the past 3 months in a website that has the reputation of near impossibility to have your post on the frontpage even once except maybe for SHOW HN threads and where a flood of new threads gets posted every 10 minutes and almost every post gets buried immediately without getting a single upvote even if it was very well written.
Even if it is only as innocent as having your friends mass upvoting every thread of yours, then this is an outright exploitation of HN rules. Again never happened that a company, especially a company that was started a few months ago and hardly known by anybody, gets to the frontpage with a 100% hit rate for more than 10 times in less than 3 months.
I will get banned for this in a matter of minutes but I will say the truth to whoever think HN is fair. For the past 3 months, every, again EVERY post that was linked to Tailscale (not just the company domain but also the blog posts of the founders' websites), has gotten to the frontpage within minutes, with a full 100% hit rate. This cannot happen for any company, any project or anything else to be honest since there is a thread that gets posted every minute on average, and almost every thread, no matter how great it is, goes forgotten forever without a single upvote. This doesn't happen to even trillion dollar companies that are known by almost everybody so certainly this can't happen for a company of 5 people that was started only last year and hardly known by anybody. Nothing can get to HN's frontpage at a hit rate of 100% especially when you know this has been happening on almost a weekly basis since last December not to mention the daily promotion in comments on literally everything that has anything to do with WireGuard or even VPNs.
HN simply favors some founders who have good network over the rest of us. I know that organized upovting and astroturfing isn't uncommon here, but there has never been anything anywhere near that's being done by this company and its founders here. This is simply free advertising worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars for free simply because the founders "know people".
EDIT: Thank you HN for proving me right! This comment has 42 points as of now and it's buried in the bottom below almost every other comment. Still not a response from the founders who very coincidentally happen to exist literally during every time a post about their company gets submitted!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759882
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652797
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644357
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571597
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22408269
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192588
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21708483
According to dang who admitted that most early upvotes come from the same users, this is totally natural and organic. I understand that Paul Graham posts are mandatory for some obvious reason to be on the frontpage, but what's the deal with this company?