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Related: Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528 Stripe is h

• lolinder 3y ago
  Note that half of those submissions were flagged to death. I don't doubt that there are some legitimate stories here, but one of those is a repeated repost with verbatim content from months earlier, and others are very vague about what sort of business they were running. It's become common knowledge that making a big stink on HN can get a lot of attention and sometimes resolve your problems, so even people who were shut down for clear violations of policy or law will try to use HN to get a mob going. Not that there aren't legitimate problems with Stripe, but the extent of those problems is blown out of proportion if you take all of these complaints at face value.
  • snvzz 3y ago
    Seeing the discussions in these submissions doesn't give me that impression. Instead, I am inclined to think that mass-flagging is being done by Stripe sockpuppets as a means of mitigating negative impact on Stripe's public image.
    • lolinder 3y ago
      The person who called out "Don't Use Stripe" [0] tied a very legitimate account to their accusation. jacquesm is a very prominent user, and called out another one for being too vague, with no reply [1]. The third was clearly selling an NSFW AI service [2] and admitted it. The other three I'm willing to believe, I'm just cautioning against believing every submission you see. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34036111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34036111 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272248 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969195
      • coder9874 3y ago
        Thanks for diving into the evidence for us. It's an important lesson not to believe everything you read on HN.
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      • bravura 3y ago
        Than you for the parent post clarification, but your GP post did NOT have an agnostic tone or focus on the spirit of sober inquiry. Instead, it came across as an admonition. I just wanted to share. "Not that there aren't legitimate problems with Stripe, but the extent of those problems is blown out of proportion if you take all of these complaints at face value." That conclusion feels a bit like legerdemain, considering that you acknowledge the strength of some of these claims (which are HN only). It's a bit like you're boxing your argument into: "If there are only seven people dead from mass shootings this year, their importance is blown out of proportion versus much more common preventable causes of death." But in a universe where the only people that get any news coverage for mass shootings are the ones that get posted and upvoted on HN. I hope my point here isn't too oblique.
        • lolinder 3y ago
          > Instead, it came across as an admonition. That's because it was intended to. OP hijacked a Show HN to share a bunch of links with complaints about Stripe. They were so quick to do so that they didn't notice that half their links were dubious. Then this hijacking post becomes pinned to the top with upvotes just like the dubious Stripe posts did before clearer heads prevailed. HN needs to get out of this habit of accepting people's inflammatory claims at face value, or we're going to rapidly lose credibility and become just another internet outage farm. --- As far as your specific complaint goes: HN's sense that Stripe can't be trusted comes from the subjective experience of seeing many complaints about Stripe on HN. There are no stats to help us understand the extent of the problem. If a full half of these complaints were dishonest, do you not see how that would skew our collective sense of how likely getting screwed over by Stripe is? As I said, I'm not trying to discount the experiences of the three stories that OP shared that seem to have been legitimate. What I'm challenging is the idea that everyone should steer clear of Stripe on the basis of a clearly flawed heuristic, as well as the idea that it's okay to hijack a Show HN to push that heuristic on people.
• anagri 3y ago
  agree you cannot run gumroad like financial transaction business without licence and agreement with stripe. it is bound to be closed down on short notice, and all the earnings will be clawed back. so don't use this app. period.
  • quickthrower2 3y ago
    Running gumroad and running “as a gumroad customer would” are two different things
• 7moritz7 3y ago
  Why are these [flagged]