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it just so happens that those interests are around supporting founders so they can build huge companies and disrupt major industries. (No joke.) Question: do
by logicallee 10y ago
it just so happens that those interests are around supporting founders so they can build huge companies and disrupt major industries. (No joke.)
Question: do threads that are critical of YC companies get buried just because they're YC companies? (For example if Uber had YC investment, which a cursory glance says it doesn't, would the criticism of it have been buried by mods here)?
(I say this because there were a lot of critical stories about Uber recently, and in the past, too.)
- dang 10y agoThe answer to your question is "of course not". When stories are critical of YC or YC-funded companies, we moderate them less than we otherwise would. I've posted about this many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=by:dang%20moderate%20yc%20less https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=by:dang%20pg%20chair https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date.... This isn't because YC doesn't care about HN's business value. It's because YC knows what HN's value consists of: the community's curiosity and trust. That's the global optimum, so that's what's in YC's interests. It would be foolish to optimize for anything else.
- logicallee 10y agoThanks, dang. Though you've posted about it a lot I hadn't run across those comments yet - thanks for the links.