Uber has had these features for a while now. As someone else mentioned, Didi has had these features too. 71 upvotes so far. This just further reinforces my view that there is an active voting ring on HN manipulating Uber and Lyft stories in Lyft's favor, which is ironic since many of the comments on such stories talk about Uber being shady.
Throwaway because I fully expect the voting ring people to downvote this.
Downvoters and those who upvoted this story, please leave a comment explaining why this is front page worthy.
> Downvoters and those who upvoted this story, please leave a comment explaining why this is front page worthy.
We don't owe you an explanation, but I'll offer one anyway: I upvoted because it's a story about a popular tech company, and the way they're trying to improve their offering for their semi-employees. Why wouldn't I upvote this?
I dislike the hyper-hatred against Uber that has become fashionable in these parts myself, but I don't think there's any need to resort to conspiracy theories to explain this post getting to the front page.
Internet users are much too quick to interpret disagreement by others as nefarious bad faith. Please don't comment in that spirit here, unless you have evidence of abuse (in which case please send it to us at hn@ycombinator.com, so we can look into it). The overwhelming majority of the time, it's just other users who have different views than you do.
Because the mechanics of how these companies make these decisions, insight into a job I don't do, and competition in a space where, a year ago, I had simply assumed Uber won was interesting.
If I'm part of an organized voting ring, I didn't get the memo.
Uber has had these features for a while now. As someone else mentioned, Didi has had these features too. 71 upvotes so far. This just further reinforces my view that there is an active voting ring on HN manipulating Uber and Lyft stories in Lyft's favor, which is ironic since many of the comments on such stories talk about Uber being shady.
Throwaway because I fully expect the voting ring people to downvote this.
Downvoters and those who upvoted this story, please leave a comment explaining why this is front page worthy.