HackerNoonReviews of hackernoon.com

The website lacks professionalism. I wanted to post a comment on an article, but HackerNoon said that I needed to be logged in to add comments. I was already logged in and had successfully set up my profile, but I still couldn't post any comments. What was the issue? Was it some Next.js misconfiguration or something? Please fix this.

Dear online community, I wish to share a rather unfortunate experience I had on HackerNoon, and I do so with the broader online community. My primary request is aimed at projects that are already partnered with them or those considering such partnerships in the future, especially concerning their so-called article writing contests. I urge you to explore alternative options. Through my continuous observations as a user, I have confidently concluded that their evaluation criteria are seriously flawed, as they lack the necessary technology to filter out bot-generated traffic. Scammers have identified this weakness and are attempting to exploit it in the following ways, which I will now describe in detail. One of their key rules for evaluating contest articles is that the top 10 articles must have generated high traffic (including bot traffic - test this by disregarding their responses). So, what do scammers do to take advantage of this rule? They create multiple articles from multiple accounts or the same account, generating artificial internet traffic for all their submissions. This way, they secure most of the available slots within the 10-article quota to increase their chances of winning. In 95% of cases, the article with the highest traffic wins the contest. It's disheartening to acknowledge that a significant portion of the funds from such contests likely ends up in the hands of scammers because quality is not a priority. High-quality articles either go unapproved or are severely underestimated by editors who often lack the expertise to evaluate such submissions. If you examine the works of past contest winners, you will be astonished. AI-generated articles and articles with non-functional, flawed code have frequently emerged as winners. Hence, it is not difficult to conclude that the concept of HackerNoon is not inherently flawed, but several factors may eventually lead to its downfall. As an experienced developer, I submitted high-quality articles for their "Unity Writing Contest," but none of them were selected as winning entries. This, I boldly claim, is due to the presence of scammers and their flawed evaluation criteria. Low-quality articles have won, and such articles can be easily found on the internet. Consequently, I decided to withdraw all my articles from their platform and republish them on my personal blog, where they are now attracting decent traffic. My frustration does not stem from not winning but from their erroneous methods of selecting contest winners. Another concerning trend is the scammers who won previous contests gradually changing their bios to match the nature of upcoming contests. For instance, if the contest is gaming-related, they update their bio to claim they are an "Experienced Game Developer." If it's a DevOps contest, they change their bio to "Professional DevOps Engineer." Astonishingly, they continue to win. This might be because editors have no clear criteria for evaluating submissions and are turning to circumstantial evidence in the contestants' profiles. If your bio states "Marketer," participating in a gaming contest will almost certainly result in a loss. My request is simple: if you are organizing a contest in a public forum, please ensure fairness and recognize the hard work of participants. Your announcement writer comes across as extremely rude and fails to appreciate participants who do not win. Consider removing the top ten quotas for evaluating submissions and assuming a less active role in evaluating articles from HackerNoon's Editorial end because their roles should be already there while approving the submissions. Most of the judging responsibility should be granted to the projects launching the contests. Thank you.

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I recently started writing tech articles and came across HackerNoon. Suddenly I got an email like this "Your account has now been added to Hacker Noon blacklist, and you will no longer be able to submit stories on HackerNoon. If you didn't plagiarize and this is a simple misunderstanding, please let us know and we can remove your account from our blacklist. To avoid getting permanently banned: You must reply to this email within 48 hours with your claims. " I replied to him within an hour but still they don't remove my account from blacklist. Also, I don't promote any website in my articles, then why you should do that kind of activities. Is this total waste of time? I lost my time and efforts.