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I find this creepy. I completely agree with policing your employees when they self-identify themselves as such (e.g., with RiotFoo name tags). This is normal.
by Splines 10y ago
I find this creepy. I completely agree with policing your employees when they self-identify themselves as such (e.g., with RiotFoo name tags). This is normal.
What is not normal is asking prospective employees for their user id and making decisions based off of the chat logs attached to it. I mean, it makes sense, but it seems like an invasion of privacy.
Would it be fair for YC to make decisions based off of the HN comment logs of YC applicants?
Sometimes you do stupid things and I believe you shouldn't be forever in the future held accountable for what you said in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
- was_boring 10y agoI thought they asked for your HN username. What else would they do with it?
- zorpner 10y agoWould it be fair for YC to make decisions based off of the HN comment logs of YC applicants? They explicitly do this.
- vonklaus 10y agonot parent. I bet they do not, however I think you implicitly agree by providing it on the application. Maybe in the case of partners being on the fence, ect, but if not out of privacy probably strictly out of time and number restrictions. That said, they always speak about how incredible their internal software is YC and HN has solid management & spam reduction software. I wouldn't be surprised if they filter for some internal criteria in an automated fashion.
- bertrand-caron 10y agoTo be fair, using the word 'privacy' implies that those conversations were private in the first place. In my opinion, there is nothing 'private' about verbally abusing (or whatever else lead to the report) a stranger on the internet on a 5v5 chat (plus any potential spectator).