请问HN:为什么小型投票或排名项目如此容易被标记为垃圾信息?
我一直在尝试一个非常小的副项目:一个简单的投票/排名工具。每个人都有一次投票机会,结果以排名列表的形式展示,目标不是决策,而是讨论。
让我感到惊讶的是,这类项目在各个社区中被迅速视为垃圾信息,即使没有盈利、没有广告,也没有任何增长黑客的手段。在某些地方,仅仅提到“我做了一个小的排名工具”似乎就足以引发怀疑或被审查。
我并不是想在这里推广什么。我真心对这种动态感到好奇:
- 投票/排名工具是否因为常被用于操控或低质量参与而声誉不佳?
- 问题是格式本身(投票、排名),还是它们通常被引入的方式?
- 从社区的角度来看,什么样的实验会让人觉得是可以接受的,而不是垃圾信息?
如果你曾建立或管理过社区,或者推出过小型实验工具,我非常想听听你对此的看法。
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I’ve been experimenting with a very small side project: a simple voting/ranking tool.
Everyone gets one vote, results are shown as a ranked list, and the goal isn’t decision-making but discussion.<p>What surprised me is how quickly these kinds of projects get treated as spam across communities, even when there’s no monetization, no ads, and no growth hacks involved. In some places, just mentioning “I built a small ranking tool” seems enough to trigger suspicion or moderation.<p>I’m not trying to promote anything here. I’m genuinely curious about the dynamics:<p>- Do voting/ranking tools have a bad reputation because they’re often used for manipulation or low-effort engagement?<p>- Is the problem the format itself (polls, rankings), or the way they’re usually introduced?<p>- From a community’s point of view, what would make an experiment like this feel acceptable rather than spammy?<p>If you’ve built or moderated communities, or shipped small experimental tools, I’d really like to hear how you think about this.