"Rate My Startup" posts have increased dramatically in the
last couple months, to the point where spammers started to
post links with "Rate My Startup" prepended. Obviously we
can't just allow any newly-created account to post a link
to any site, no matter how offtopic it would otherwise be,
with the claim that it's their startup (or weekend project,
or whatever). And yet I would not want to ban RMS
posts entirely. We need some way to separate legit ones,
and it seems like the simplest policy is to allow them
from established accounts but not newly created ones.
I'd been planning to consider ways to embody this in the software, maybe with a new type of item that (like polls) had a karma threshold, but I've been postponing dealing
with it till I was done reading YC applications. In the meantime
for the past several weeks I've been killing RMS posts that
weren't from established accounts.
I really need to get back to reviewing applications, since today
is the last day. In a couple days I'll revisit the matter.
I'd been planning to consider ways to embody this in the software, maybe with a new type of item that (like polls) had a karma threshold, but I've been postponing dealing with it till I was done reading YC applications. In the meantime for the past several weeks I've been killing RMS posts that weren't from established accounts.
I really need to get back to reviewing applications, since today is the last day. In a couple days I'll revisit the matter.