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A wrongthink reply has been deleted. I though HN had a policy of allowing criticism of Ycombinator (and hopefully ex-Ycombinator led) companies. The OpenAI thr
by jklpt 4y ago
A wrongthink reply has been deleted. I though HN had a policy of allowing criticism of Ycombinator (and hopefully ex-Ycombinator led) companies.
The OpenAI threads are the exact opposite: The do not seem organic at all. Of course users probably do all the flagging, but it still gives a bad impression.
- dang 4y agoI suppose you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834991? Users flagged that. I don't think they were wrong to flag it - it's pretty flamey, and the site guidelines ask you to avoid flamebait, fulmination, and name-calling. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's true that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is the topic, but (a) Github isn't one, and (b) we can't do any sort of moderation (less or more) on posts we don't see. I didn't see yours until now. Re OpenAI threads - I'm not aware of anything non-organic going on there. As far as I can tell, HN users are just really interested in AI related stuff. Same for Deepmind threads, etc. (Btw, although it's common for commenters who break the site guidelines to confer honorifics like "wrongthink" on their own posts, you don't need to resort to that to understand why users flagged your comment.)