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Amazing how many times this post has gotten flagged. #methinksthebrosprotesttoomuch

dogecoinbase 9y ago
It seems like YC could gain a competitive advantage by reducing the risk of accidentally funding those likely to become sexual harassment liabilities by keeping an internal list of who flags stories like this. Interesting opportunity.
- subway 9y ago
  waits on this comment to be flagged
- trgv 9y ago
  > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This post seems off topic to me. There are a lot of these stories floating around (sadly). They're all over the news. I also think your suggestion is silly if meant to be taken seriously.
  - subway 9y ago
    I must be a shit hacker, as I certainly found the post interesting. It discusses human behavior in the context of hackers gathering together, and strategies on improving those behaviors. How can you possibly get more on-topic?
  - dogecoinbase 9y ago
    Really? I describe a specific way YC could use their unique access to a proprietary dataset to gain a competitive advantage in the tech venture capital marketplace. One literally couldn't be more on-topic for HN.
- yetanotherthrwy 9y ago
  So you're advocating creating a hidden blacklist to interfere with people's careers with marginal evidence, by justifying that finding a thread like this off topic makes you more likely to assault people? I find this mindset its own sort of worrying for the future of discourse, and the fact that you'd even suggest the above should explain the (additionally sad) fact that I need to post this on a throwaway. When anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly back you is "the opposition" and the modus-operandi when interacting with "the opposition" is to attack their very livelihood, it shouldn't be surprising that there is a push-back.
sctb 9y ago
We've turned off the flags, but we all need to take extra care to comment civilly and substantively so that we have a chance to discuss the actual issue. Users often flag stories like this because they're anticipating flamewars and not at all because they disagree with the content of the article.
- jakebasile 9y ago
  I think it's a bit uncool to "turn off the flags" here. I flagged this specifically because I am tired of the incessant flamewar that will surely happen in here.
  - sctb 9y ago
    When moderators do this we compensate by giving the thread specific attention to attempt to prevent such flamewars as best we can.
- revmoo 9y ago
  Why offer user-based voting if you're not going to honor it?

It seems like YC could gain a competitive advantage by reducing the risk of accidentally funding those likely to become sexual harassment liabilities by keeping an internal list of who flags stories like this. Interesting opportunity.

subway 9y ago
waits on this comment to be flagged
trgv 9y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This post seems off topic to me. There are a lot of these stories floating around (sadly). They're all over the news. I also think your suggestion is silly if meant to be taken seriously.
- subway 9y ago
  I must be a shit hacker, as I certainly found the post interesting. It discusses human behavior in the context of hackers gathering together, and strategies on improving those behaviors. How can you possibly get more on-topic?
- dogecoinbase 9y ago
  Really? I describe a specific way YC could use their unique access to a proprietary dataset to gain a competitive advantage in the tech venture capital marketplace. One literally couldn't be more on-topic for HN.
yetanotherthrwy 9y ago
So you're advocating creating a hidden blacklist to interfere with people's careers with marginal evidence, by justifying that finding a thread like this off topic makes you more likely to assault people? I find this mindset its own sort of worrying for the future of discourse, and the fact that you'd even suggest the above should explain the (additionally sad) fact that I need to post this on a throwaway. When anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly back you is "the opposition" and the modus-operandi when interacting with "the opposition" is to attack their very livelihood, it shouldn't be surprising that there is a push-back.

sctb 9y ago

We've turned off the flags, but we all need to take extra care to comment civilly and substantively so that we have a chance to discuss the actual issue. Users often flag stories like this because they're anticipating flamewars and not at all because they disagree with the content of the article.

jakebasile 9y ago
I think it's a bit uncool to "turn off the flags" here. I flagged this specifically because I am tired of the incessant flamewar that will surely happen in here.
- sctb 9y ago
  When moderators do this we compensate by giving the thread specific attention to attempt to prevent such flamewars as best we can.
revmoo 9y ago
Why offer user-based voting if you're not going to honor it?