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Upwork just stole $10k from me

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342 points dustedcodes | 3 comments | 25 Feb 23 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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ddtaylor ◴[25 Feb 23 10:42 UTC] No.34935585[source]▶
Welcome to HN where we provide support after large corporations fail to do basic due diligence.
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jb1991 ◴[25 Feb 23 10:57 UTC] No.34935647[source]▶
A moderator replied to me a couple months ago that these kinds of posts are usually penalized so HN doesn’t become a support site, but I still see them quite often on here on the front page. I had been commenting that when such posts are made for YC companies, they rarely make it to the front page.

> there has been a glut lately of stories using HN as customer-support-of-last-resort or generic-complaints-about-$company, and we've been hearing an increasing amount of community complaints and pushback about those. HN's standard mod practice is to downweight most such threads

I’m guessing that Upwork is not a YC company.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816

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1. MattGaiser ◴[25 Feb 23 11:06 UTC] No.34935681[source]▶
It is also the middle of the night where HN mods usually live (USA).
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2. joshmn ◴[25 Feb 23 11:08 UTC] No.34935697[source]▶
Good morning dang! Happy Saturday. :(
3. jb1991 ◴[25 Feb 23 14:43 UTC] No.34937034[source]▶
I guess he woke up because this quickly dropped to the fifth page!