Ask HN: Is there currently an HN transparency site?
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I remember in the past seeing a couple different sites that tracked HN submissions to identify which ones had been flagged, pushed down, killed, etc. Is there such a site today? If so, can I get the link? If not, it would be great if someone (with the time/motivation/skill) could build a new one and maintain it over the long term. Maybe even push the data to a blockchain or something. Obviously this should be a feature of HN itself, it's pretty simple, but in lieu that it seems incredibly important for someone to build and maintain it. Even though the recent complaints about YC/Stripe are not fully founded (IMHO) there is no doubt that YC's dominance over the tech community's conversations is something to be watched very closely. They do very obviously have their thumb on the scale. There have been shenanigans in the past and there will be in the future. The conflict of interest is simply too strong. The most obvious issue today is that HN doesn't prevent voting rings for sufficiently large organizations, like YC itself. Why doesn't it prevent them? Well, the answer is obvious: they have a massive incentive not to. Why isn't there a transparency log for moderation? Same answer. Edit: from dang's post I saw one of the sites I had remembered: http://hnrankings.info/
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