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I'm wondering if he actually said "Get ready for the crash", as the article title and former HN title suggest. It's not in the interview. I suppose it's kind of

by Joeboy 5y ago

I'm wondering if he actually said "Get ready for the crash", as the article title and former HN title suggest. It's not in the interview. I suppose it's kind of implied.

throwaway2016a 5y ago
It's not in the interview portion but the article does say he said it: > "Get ready for the crash," he said bluntly of the grandest claims made for Web3.
kordlessagain 5y ago
I’m wondering why the title got changed myself. Based on the comment at the top I have to assume YC, and therefore this entire board, has an investment in selling it (web3) to others. So, they changed the title and defined how it should be discussed before nerfing it off the front page. I don’t think that there have been “flame wars” here about it either, nor do I think it lowers the quality of the content here. The idea of NFTs holding value is debatable and naturally polarizing because of how humans form trust channels. Some are OK in believing a brand new corporation, with little or no oversight, will always do the right thing when it comes to maintaining their records of things tokenized (such as providing legal guidance to courts in proving ownership status according to the software they wrote to color the object with a coin). Some don’t think that’s a thing, now or ever. When there is repeating behaviors from the discourse that tells us something about the divisiveness of the subject itself. When there are repeating behaviors from management about a particular topic, that’s something else entirely.
- dang 5y ago
  I changed it (as the HN guidelines ask - "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) because that bit was obvious bait, and certain to rile up the thread, which produces exactly the generic-indignant sort of comment that we least want here. The title is much more accurate and neutral without that bit. > I have to assume You really don't have to assume—you can just ask. In this case your assumptions were wrong: (1) This has zero to do with YC investments—it is is bog-standard, routine HN moderation. I have no idea what Web 3 investments YC has made (or what Web 3 means, for that matter). We don't moderate HN to promote YC's investments in any case—that would be an idiotic thing to do, as it would destroy the good faith of the community which is literally the only value that HN has. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=yc%20business%20interests%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for lots of past explanation. (2) I didn't "nerf" this article off the front page—I turned off the automatic penalty that HN's software had put on this submission*, so that it could make the front page. It fell off later because it set off the flamewar detector. * as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305899

by Joeboy 5y ago

I'm wondering if he actually said "Get ready for the crash", as the article title and former HN title suggest. It's not in the interview. I suppose it's kind of implied.

throwaway2016a 5y ago

It's not in the interview portion but the article does say he said it: > "Get ready for the crash," he said bluntly of the grandest claims made for Web3.

kordlessagain 5y ago

I’m wondering why the title got changed myself. Based on the comment at the top I have to assume YC, and therefore this entire board, has an investment in selling it (web3) to others. So, they changed the title and defined how it should be discussed before nerfing it off the front page. I don’t think that there have been “flame wars” here about it either, nor do I think it lowers the quality of the content here. The idea of NFTs holding value is debatable and naturally polarizing because of how humans form trust channels. Some are OK in believing a brand new corporation, with little or no oversight, will always do the right thing when it comes to maintaining their records of things tokenized (such as providing legal guidance to courts in proving ownership status according to the software they wrote to color the object with a coin). Some don’t think that’s a thing, now or ever. When there is repeating behaviors from the discourse that tells us something about the divisiveness of the subject itself. When there are repeating behaviors from management about a particular topic, that’s something else entirely.

dang 5y ago
I changed it (as the HN guidelines ask - "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) because that bit was obvious bait, and certain to rile up the thread, which produces exactly the generic-indignant sort of comment that we least want here. The title is much more accurate and neutral without that bit. > I have to assume You really don't have to assume—you can just ask. In this case your assumptions were wrong: (1) This has zero to do with YC investments—it is is bog-standard, routine HN moderation. I have no idea what Web 3 investments YC has made (or what Web 3 means, for that matter). We don't moderate HN to promote YC's investments in any case—that would be an idiotic thing to do, as it would destroy the good faith of the community which is literally the only value that HN has. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=yc%20business%20interests%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for lots of past explanation. (2) I didn't "nerf" this article off the front page—I turned off the automatic penalty that HN's software had put on this submission*, so that it could make the front page. It fell off later because it set off the flamewar detector. * as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305899