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I keep seeing more stories that are not relevant to startup news (like this, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270) and users that will post 10 stories in a row that are pointless. Is the 'Karma' devaluing the YC news feature? I think it is a great resources and hate to see the stories become less and less relevant.

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This is not offtopic. Stories about backbone providers and how they make money are relevant to startups. The more competition there is to users' houses, the more bandwidth users will end up with, and that affects what startups should build.

The example you state is both relevant AND has NO karma upvotes. How does this support your thesis?

No karma up votes because it is not relevant.

If it has no karma, then how does it support your thesis that karma is hurting the quality of YC news?

It goes back to members posting 7 stories at once just to gain karma points and pushing real stories off the limited new page. (that story linked to a group of stories submitted by the same person in a span of a couple minutes.)

I guess I am the "guilty" party in your complaint here. The reason I submit all in a row as I do is when I'm reading my daily news (typically in the morning) and see something relevant for YC, I submit it. This is why you'll get several from me in a row, especially since there aren't that many up at 5am or so posting. This is also typical of a few others.

then it doenst make it to the front page

Someone already said that and gave a response. Please read the whole thread.

I am the poster of this article: I found this particular article actually exciting. Why? I had no idea Verizon was laying fiber directly to customers and allowing all that bandwidth to be used at a very reasonable cost. I was very dissappointed, though, when I found out that the service is not yet available for my location. The big news for startups here: cheaper bandwidth! (maybe its available at your location?), and potentially a growing base of users with large bandwidth which will change the kinds of services that can be provided.

If you felt all that, could you try and put some of it in the title when you submit the link. It would help a lot to know why something thinks a post is relevant, it may not be obvious to others.

bootload has started doing this. I think it's good. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422

Good Point (I'll put comments in parens after the title)

I agree to a certain degree. If it were up to me, I'd remove "leaders" section completely and use karma to track down spammers etc.

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