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Dude, it's good that you write these articles and I appreciate them. But for gods sake, let them have today. There are a lot of difficulties in running a commu
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Dude, it's good that you write these articles and I appreciate them. But for gods sake, let them have today.
There are a lot of difficulties in running a community and I'm sure they considered different options but couldn't move forward because they were under too much pressure.
They deserve congrats for today.
- intro-b 10y agothat kind of attitude is responsible for a lot of awful behavior in the startup community—why should a business venture be exempt from criticism for unethical/misleading practices just because they managed to parlay those practices into eventual financial success? what does that say about startup culture and the rewards, the "deserved congrats," we give out?
- fourstar 10y agoLet them have what exactly? The whole entire site smelled like a get rich quick scheme from the start for the founder. I tried submitting something only to later come to the same realizations of the vote rigging aforementioned. Congrats on playing the VC system, I guess.
- aml183 10y agoWhat? Ryan started a newsletter out of a love of discovering new products. I'm sure he was very surprised how popular it became.
- kaishiro 10y agoThis is a bizarre sentiment (to me). Success should never act as some sort of temporary shield to criticism.