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Hey, I'm Mark Nadal and I was accepted into Mozilla's "Fix the Internet" program - it has been fantastic so far & huge respect to everyone at Mozilla for puttin
by marknadal 6y ago
Hey, I'm Mark Nadal and I was accepted into Mozilla's "Fix the Internet" program - it has been fantastic so far & huge respect to everyone at Mozilla for putting this on.
Note: I doubt anyone will see this comment as HackerNews has shadow banned my account because my Open Source project competes with some of YC's investments (it undermines & destroys the need/market for some of their crypto-coin scams).
I interviewed with YC a few years ago and their entire process was terribly unprofessional - I've gone through 3 accelerator programs now, and interviewed at many more. YC itself seems pretty awesome, but beware of the politics - if a single person (HN mod in my case) feels like you are a threat to their status, that person has enough marketing power to hurt you. Find the GOOD people in YC and work with them, don't leave it to chance or you'll fall out of good graces.
In contrast, look what Mozilla is doing! They're helping move the internet (the world, the community) forward, and are a non-profit foundation. I highly recommend applying to their program. They are GOOD people, doing good work. Please please do everything you can to help them make this a success - the internet depends on it.
- dependenttypes 6y agoThe only recent dead post of yours seems to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761370. Are you sure that you are shadow-banned?
- dang 6y agoWe banned you after many years of you promoting your product aggressively on HN, using shady tactics such as voting rings and links to things that looked unrelated but were in fact stealthy ways of promoting the exact same thing over and over. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489651 Users complained frequently about you spamming HN over all these years—there are many more comments like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677493 , but we gave you the benefit of the doubt and cut you slack until finally enough was enough. We've banned countless users for far less. We moderate HN less when YC or YC startups are involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20less%20not%20more%20yc&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but I don't see how that relates to this.
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