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Without taking sides on this, the rapid deletion and downvoting of this article is not a super great look for this community, even if it’s just a bunch of peopl
by ashtonkem 6y ago
Without taking sides on this, the rapid deletion and downvoting of this article is not a super great look for this community, even if it’s just a bunch of people who like PG and don’t like criticism of him.
- 4cao 6y agoIt might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).
- whymauri 6y agoThe subheading is really unfortunate. I don't always agree with pg, but I think Y Combinator is a great thing.
- ashtonkem 6y agoMichael Church definitely has an axe to grind, and it’s certainly fair to complain about that. I personally think that he’d sway more people to his side of thinking with a less acerbic style, but that’s just me. The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.
- gdix 6y agoIt might also have to do with the fact that the author removed it from their own site and the link is now dead.