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I suspect that some of them are people that took rejection by YC a bit harder than they should have This is a worrisome statement. You get enough flags on a su
by bravura 16y ago
I suspect that some of them are people that took rejection by YC a bit harder than they should have
This is a worrisome statement. You get enough flags on a submission and it's automatically deleted, right?
The YC deadline is coming up in two days. Should we not submit cool new hacks to YC right now? It seems like people who are insecure about their applications might be incentivized to kill submissions where people demo something cool, under the premise that they want to stifle potential competition for YC slots. (Which is dumb, because the URL will still be on the application, but I never said this was rational.)
[edit: I know jacquesm was talking about previous YC applicants, but this led me to speculate on whether flaggings were performed by current YC applicants.]
- jacquesm 16y agoYou are misinterpreting what I wrote I think. I did not mean that you should not be submitting cool new hacks here, that's no problem at all. What I meant was that there may be characters out there that have been rejected by YC in the past that vent their frustration by being less than good citizens of HN. So it's nothing to do with people that are insecure about their applications or submissions to HN today, it's got to do with people that were rejected during previous rounds that took it personal instead of as constructive criticism and/or limited resources.