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This comment is unfair to PG. There's no way for you to know this, but behind the scenes PG has always been protective of Hacker News and has been aware that HN
by garry 11y ago
This comment is unfair to PG. There's no way for you to know this, but behind the scenes PG has always been protective of Hacker News and has been aware that HN exists outside of YC and has utility for the community at large.
YC founders are actually subject to voting rings as well, and often get dinged.
I get that there is a knee-jerk anti-authoritarian kind of sentiment here, but in this case, the tone and attitude is undeserved.
- andrewljohnson 11y ago1) I wish you'd dispute the meat of what I said: * That YC founders can see each other differently on the site (colored names). * This naturally leads to more upvotes for YC stories. * These upvotes would be unlikely to trigger voting rings. * This provides a non-transparent (unfair?) advantage for YC startups, and a false signal about the interest in these startups overall for people unware. 2) The job listings thing I have less to harp on, but I still find it a little weird that there is a hugely popular job board reserved for a few hundred companies. 3) The comment wasn't intended as an attack on pg, and I understand the YC is from the top down well-meaning and full of good people. But the site is better, more transparent, and more fair under the new management, at least it seems that way to me. I imagine the cultishness is recognized and unwanted... hence pg not being on the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (and totally withdrawing from the site overall)