> I think your view is common enough, and you had the courage to say it out loud. Thanks, I guess. Philosophical: seems to me that the tone of HN has shifted.

> I think your view is common enough, and you had the courage to say it out loud. Thanks, I guess. Philosophical: seems to me that the tone of HN has shifted. Not in the standard way, it's not less intelligent per se. Rather, there is a greater proportion of big-co employees, academics, and college students. People without profit/loss responsibility, who don't deal directly with customers, who've never been through a media firestorm like what AirBnB is experiencing now. While it's usually hard to pinpoint any particular change, it's safe to say the tenor of this thread would be very different if this was still Startup News. YC alums need not say AirBnB has handled this well (i concur that the mere existence of this thread shows that they made objective errors, though in my opinion not normative ones). But they would not be so quick to trash the startup.