I believe it, this type of corruption goes on all the time here.
Personally I wish it would stop, I thought Ycombinator was supposed to give a voice to the young and up and coming sites and not continuously allow the same already big sites to keep blog spamming their content in order to maintain their traffic.
I'm also SO BEYOND sick and tired of seeing one thousand tech crunch links per day while the more interesting and unique smaller blog articles are banished for being considered spam by the mods here.
I'm sick of seeing techcrunch articles on there it's ruining this site.