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This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. A company blatantly pissing off much of its would-be userbase and sticking to its gro
by austenallred 11y ago
This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life.
A company blatantly pissing off much of its would-be userbase and sticking to its grossly incompetent guns, obviously not caring at all.
I literally cannot imagine a way they could handle this more poorly.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoThis has to be mental illness or drugs. Completely bizarre.
- brighteyes 11y agoAnother possibility, but not a likely one, is that the site has been hacked by someone that is trying to make them look as bad as possible.
- facetube 11y agoYeah, their CEO. cymbal
- brazzledazzle 11y agoUnless this hacker was able to get the COO's HN account as well that seems unlikely. And even then a call to someone at YC to jump into the thread and let everyone know it was a hack wouldn't be too hard.
- DanBC 11y agoBit frustrating that you see poor behaviour that's hard to understand and leap to "mentally ill", rather than "scumbag".
- austenallred 11y agoThat's just trying desperately to give the benefit of the doubt. "Surely no one would be this bad on purpose."
- brazzledazzle 11y agoAs austenallred mentioned, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
- DanBC 11y agoBut by linking mental illness to scumbag behaviour you're making life worse for all the people with mental illness who aren't scumbags - which is most of them.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoA group that I am a member of. Perhaps I'm biased but I don't feel like my life is particularly worsened. I've had the misfortune of bearing witness to paranoia fueled by both mental illness and drug abuse (and a combination of both). I've also worked with and for unapologetic assholes. There are things about this case and his communications that have me leaning toward the former.