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I don't understand why you are insulting me. I've been nothing but respectful towards others and have posted proof of my claims. The people being nasty are the

I don't understand why you are insulting me. I've been nothing but respectful towards others and have posted proof of my claims. The people being nasty are the others responding to my comments. Am I responsible for them? Obviously this is a touchy subject for some on here because Sam Altman and many other YC alums love this man. Does that mean I can't post a critical comment?

dang 6y ago
I certainly didn't mean to insult you! It's just that this is a classic flamewar topic that has been argued to death many times, and your comments in this thread were feeding the flamewar more than anyone else's I saw, both in quantity, and in quality—specifically, pushing increasingly toward hostility. Hostility is the opposite direction to the curious conversation we want here. Sam, YC, et. al., have nothing to do with this—it's just bog-standard HN moderation. If you don't believe me, here are 5,000 examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20flame&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....