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Seems as though the story has been spiked. Kind of disappointing from YC, considering they promote learning from failure.
by rcarrigan87 10y ago
Seems as though the story has been spiked. Kind of disappointing from YC, considering they promote learning from failure.
- dang 10y agoWhy do you assume that? No one at YC touched that post or probably even saw it; I certainly didn't. It's the #1 policy of Hacker News moderation not to censor stories because they happen to be negative about YC or YC startups. We moderate such posts less, not more, than we otherwise would. This is literally the first thing pg explained to me when I started working on HN, and I think he did it before I even had a chance to grab a chair.
- rcarrigan87 10y agoIt just seemed odd that a story with 12 upvotes and 4 comments couldn't be found in the top 200 within 2 hours of posting. I see now it's made it to the front page. I'm assuming maybe this had to do with too many ppl posting the article or the specific user who posted or some kind of sandbox period.
- rcarrigan87 10y agonvm, just saw your note. Good deal, happy you caught it!