The darkly humorous thing about this is that the original submission would've been flagged away in other communities, precisely because it lacks substance. I d

The darkly humorous thing about this is that the original submission would've been flagged away in other communities, precisely because it lacks substance. I don't know if this is because of people wanting to upvote the general propaganda of the startup ecosystem here, or because of a general attempt at reversing the trend of HN being perceived as overly critical--both are reasonable in their own way. Your observation about the uneven application of the guidelines here by HN members is of course spot on.