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This has to be mental illness or drugs. Completely bizarre.

• brighteyes 11y ago
  Another 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 ago
    Yeah, their CEO. cymbal
  • brazzledazzle 11y ago
    Unless 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 ago
  Bit frustrating that you see poor behaviour that's hard to understand and leap to "mentally ill", rather than "scumbag".
  • austenallred 11y ago
    That's just trying desperately to give the benefit of the doubt. "Surely no one would be this bad on purpose."
  • brazzledazzle 11y ago
    As austenallred mentioned, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
    • DanBC 11y ago
      But 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 ago
        A 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.