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For those interested, here is the comment that got him banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538

• zeptumnos 4y ago
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  • AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    > Back in 2015, YC was actually bribing and extorting people into pumping this false narrative in an attempt to drum up a cancel lynch mob against MOC Evidence? I sure don't remember them doing any such thing, and I was around here in 2015.
    • vnoops 4y ago
      It was as much in Twitter and Reddit as it was here, but there was this disingenuous campaign not only to misrepresent the true cause of the ban but to mischaracterize “queynte” as some kind of gender slur. The goal was to stir up a lynch mob and get him fired or even killed, but it turned out MOC wasn’t polarising enough or even that relevant, so it never went anywhere.
      • tptacek 4y ago
        Do you get how sad this looks for you?
    • dang 4y ago
      It's singular bullshit—there's only one person repeating it.
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