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I don't think it's fair to lump YC culture in with SV culture. YC is based in SV, but it seems to be an island of reasonableness.
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
I don't think it's fair to lump YC culture in with SV culture. YC is based in SV, but it seems to be an island of reasonableness.
- hncens0rship 9y agoI do, and provided a direct example of their culture of censorship - how they limit the ability of minority opinions to speak on their own site, and manipulate the front page to control perception. YC leadership and rank and file effectively never express opinions that are significantly different from the rest of SF tech, because in many ways they define its culture. Why is it a "bastion of reasonableness?" The only reason I even talk at all here is because I think it's important to break up the ideological uniformity, because people who talk here have enormous amounts of control over how people are able to communicate with one another in the modern world. I don't want to be here, I fucking hate this community.
- Bukhmanizer 9y agoWhile I think that YC tends to be a bit more reasonable on some topics, it can be pretty reactionary on others. For example, if anything to do with Facebook or Zuckerberg is posted, the level of discourse drops to the typical reddit outrage machine. Similarly, I think that when it comes to talking about sexism in tech, the community as a whole can be pretty toxic. As someone who was annoyed by both the original manifesto, and the response to the original manifesto, it's a bit frustrating to see the conversation here take shape the way it has.
- stefantalpalaru 9y ago> I don't think it's fair to lump YC culture in with SV culture. YC is based in SV, but it seems to be an island of reasonableness. Wait until you get hellbanned.