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Y Combinator entrepreneurs say they were kicked out of the accelerator
- simonswords82 5y agoBusiness Insider really is a digital tabloid that would rely on any headline for clicks. Wouldn't trust this source.
- hendzen 5y agoYC is not some magic fantasy organization. Like any other org you should probably discuss things your upset about internally with relevant stakeholders before complaining on Twitter. That said telling other people how to circumvent vaccine queues is clearly unethical and someone high up should have loudly squashed that immediately.
- tomhoward 5y ago> someone high up should have loudly squashed that immediately Both the posts about this were promptly removed by YC staff. (And I've just tried searching for any posts with vaccination advice, and there are none whatsoever.) At least one of the posts didn't seem to be unethical (no lies were being told or rules being broken – though I don't know for sure, I don't live in the US and I haven't read the post myself). But it was still removed by YC staff.
- kordlessagain 5y agoI posted this to see if it would get upvoted. I was a bit surprised to come back and find it doing well, but not surprised it got flagged. Did you know karma here is < 1/2 of the votes up on a submission, but downvotes on a comment seem to count about 1 to 1? At least I got some karma from it! In regards to it being flagged, I suppose it's a questionable ethical practice to see the site flag an article about itself. I've made other self-interest related censorship observations here before and I guess the lesson is that those in control can do what they want, when they want.
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- gfodor 5y agoThe acccused and the accuser both tweeted extensively about this, but only one side is covered in the article. Great journalism.
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- dhimes 5y agoThe article says YC declined to comment.
- gfodor 5y agoI’m not talking about YC I’m talking about the person accused of lying to get the vaccine. They claimed the accusation is false and explained why. The article fails to mention that despite the fact they sourced the accusation from the same place the defense was (Twitter.) It’s selective reporting without a doubt, but I won’t guess a motive. intent, or cause.
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- addicted 5y agoBecause the problem being raised isn’t whether the “accused” was correct, or the “accuser” was correct. The problem being raised is that the mere act of making an accusation is sufficient to kick someone out of Ycombinator.
- dougSF70 5y agoWhat I find baffling is that PG is so against cancel culture. Approx. 1 in 10 of his tweets are railing against this phenomenon. Yet in the YC community cancel culture is permitted. Admittedly they are not one and the same (YC and PG) but it does undermine the credibility of the organization to go against on of its founder's principles.
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- gabereiser 5y agoOh jeez, here we go again. Yesterday’s thread about it was pretty clear. Now there’s a one sided article about it on BI. It’s almost like they don’t care and just want the click-bait and traffic.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoI was busy yesterday. I request a link to yesterday's thread!
- okareaman 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399581
- causality0 5y agoIt's baffling to me what goes viral. This spat gets people talking but the DreamWorld scandal doesn't?
- varsketiz 5y agoWhat is the DreamWorld scandal?
- version_five 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266 (I had not seen this before, just the result of a search). It looks like it did get quite a bit of discussion
- bdcravens 5y agoPreviously discussed over a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898266 Seems to be little more than an overly ambitious, moderately sized Kickstarter where the creators can't deliver. Only wrinkle is the fact that it's a YC company. It's a stretch to call it a scandal.
- psyc 5y agoThere’s a long running joke in the gamedev community about 12 year olds showing up and asking how to create their dream MMO. DreamWorld is what would happen if those 12 year olds got into YCombinator and ran a successful Kickstarter. There was a thread the other day. It went easier on them than I just did.
- causality0 5y agoThere's allegations there was nepotism involved in YC approving an obviously garbage proposal.
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- ykevinator3 5y agoPaul doesn't seem like a good person.