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It's interesting this is the top voted comment when it isn't really substantive to the article's subject matter.
by smallgovt 8y ago
It's interesting this is the top voted comment when it isn't really substantive to the article's subject matter.
- rattray 8y agoAs a would-be founder, this new move from A16Z makes me worry they won't focus on helping startups like this anymore. Anecdotes like this help quell that fear a bit, even if wrongly.
- ALittleLight 8y agoWhy would you want to wrongly quell a fear?
- rattray 8y agoI want to adjust my fear to the real level of risk/uncertainty; in this case, that's still above zero, but the anecdote above helps drop it down.
- sokoloff 8y agoWhy would you assume that wrongly quells the fear? I would tend to assume that the demonstrated character (good or bad, good in this example) of the principals of A16Z would remain the same across the company change.
- ALittleLight 8y agoI'm not assuming anything. The comment I'm replying to states that this helps to quell a fear "even if wrongly". To me, this seems like saying that removing the batteries from your smoke alarm will help you sleep, even through house fires.
- gwern 8y agoSeems substantive to me: it's a testimony from a founder working with a16z about the benefits of the 'services' model of a16z.
- smallgovt 8y agoHaha, OK, I'm doubling down on upvote fraud here. Someone is clearly artificially upvoting sibling replies to my parent comment to displace it. My parent comment received 14 upvotes and was ranked as the top response for the 4 hours after posting it. Then, in the span of one hour, every other comment reply received enough upvotes to displace my parent comment. Even, "Thank you for sharing this". Is there a way to call @dang over? It makes me sad that HN is being gamed.
- dang 8y agoI appreciate your concern for the integrity of HN—the fact that the community here feels so strongly about that is one of the best and most community-like things about it. However. If you read the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), you'll notice that: (1) commenting on voting on comments is off topic; (2) insinuating astroturfing is not ok; (3) you should email us instead: hn@ycombinator.com. Re #1: a moderator correctly marked your comment off topic. That lowers its rank. Re #2: I looked at the upvotes. There's no trace of abuse that I can see. People are far, far too quick to assume manipulation when the truth is simply that large subsets of the community like different things. That's why we have that guideline.