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Pretty dirty if YC did indeed remove an article criticizing one of their start-ups. Maybe it was the right move short term, but that kind of crap does the site
by andrewljohnson 16y ago
Pretty dirty if YC did indeed remove an article criticizing one of their start-ups. Maybe it was the right move short term, but that kind of crap does the site and YC long term harm. Can a moderator confirm or deny:
"The debate was heated even further when posts discussing the issue were deleted from the popular news discussion forum, Hacker News. Some accused moderators of the forum - part of Y Combinator, a startup incubator from which Posterous graduated - of intentionally removing the anti-Posterous discussions."
- jraines 16y agoIIRC the removed post was just piling on and name calling after the issue had been pretty thoroughly discussed. Maybe it was killed by user flagging?
- bdr 16y agoIf you set "showdead" in your profile, you'll see all this stuff. I'm not a moderator, but I can confirm that there was a front-page anti-Posterous story that got killed, and then there was a very highly voted "Ask HN" about that story getting killed, which itself got killed. Of course, this doesn't mean they were killed specifically for being anti-Posterous.
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- Tichy 16y agoI was under the impression that some of the Anti-YC posts were killed for real (not even visible with showdead anymore), but maybe my memory fails me.
- bosch 16y agoThis sounds like the story about Apple removing the threads on their iPhone 4 reception issue. Why not leave it up and allow discussion? Then provide answers to users questions...