VC News is basically a Reddit clone to show off pg's then-up-and-coming toy language. • Discourages long-running discussions by burying (and ultimately locking

VC News is basically a Reddit clone to show off pg's then-up-and-coming toy language. • Discourages long-running discussions by burying (and ultimately locking) older content • Discourages coversation in favour of fire-and-forget comments by making it impractical to continue where you left off • Gamification of content • Numerically larger groups can bury content they would prefer others not see — but slightly worse — • No notification of replies, making actual discussion impractical • Extra privileges for conformity (downvoting, vouching) It doesn't match what pg wrote in http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html but actions speak louder than words.