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So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?

• dang 4y ago
  No, I meant that (assuming I'm reading the data correctly) the exchange was orchestrated and not at all organic. I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.
  • yuvalsteuer 4y ago
    I'm not sure of the data, I was linked this by a friend, I'm not really sure how a proprietary saas company ends up as the good guy, while we're trying to ensure the next big search platform remains open, end up as thugs. It seems the main mods problem with what I did is plugging our github url, which made it obvious I diverted attention from needl's launch, mistake I made. I'm not deleting any comments, because I prefer context to mod interactions stand in broad daylight. I'm truely sorry, I like this forum, mods here are awesome.
    • dang 4y ago
      Don't worry! as long it doesn't happen again, it doesn't need to be a problem. Obviously I can't know what happened off the site, but to judge by what I'm looking at in the data at our end, this exchange was obviously not organic, nor was this the first evidence of collusion that I found.