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Bringing in people's names in order to attack them is a breach of this site's civility rule. Yes, we are aware that Smyte is YC W15. Thanks for the reminder t
by throwaway4dang 8y ago
Bringing in people's names in order to attack them is a breach of this site's civility rule.
Yes, we are aware that Smyte is YC W15. Thanks for the reminder that you protect your own from base accountability at high cost to others.
- dang 8y agoThat had nothing to do with it. I had no idea that Smyte was a YC company (or had forgotten, not sure which). But thanks for letting me know. Since it sounds like you follow these things closely, I'm surprised you'd be so cynical. If there's literally a single case where someone did that where we haven't chided them, I'd like to know about it. In fact if there are any personal attacks of any kind on HN that we haven't moderated, I'd like to know. The likeliest reason is that we just didn't see it. In the present case a user (not connected to YC as far as I know) emailed us to complain about the comment, I looked at it, and replied—same as it ever was.