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Thanks you. For the record, I replied "Fine!" as a friendly acknowledgement of the community winning the argument. I collapsed some of the subthreads, because,

by tomhow 11mo ago

Thanks you. For the record, I replied "Fine!" as a friendly acknowledgement of the community winning the argument. I collapsed some of the subthreads, because, at the time, these meta subthreads were taking up most of the main thread. However I deliberately left some uncollapsed – even though we would normally have collapsed all of them – so as not to hide the fact that there was debate about the title. I also turned off default penalties (flamewar detector, flags) and restored the submission to the front page to give it more exposure.

kotaKat 11mo ago
Aaaand now I've been deliberately censored with a [flagged] here. 10/10, bravo.
- dredmorbius 11mo ago
  Not by mods: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44761325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44761325> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363747>
- tomhow 11mo ago
  I've disabled flags on your comment and uncollapsed it. The title was changed after the community made its feelings known and I found a way to include A16Z within the title. My replies were meant to be friendly not petulant. The story spent 8 hours on the front page, because we turned off penalties. We have no interest in suppressing stories about any company or investor. A16Z is a completely separate entity from YC; It invests in YC companies and also may be seen to be competing with YC for early stage deals. These considerations don't factor into our moderation decisions. What does matter is HN’s purpose: discovering content that gratifies intellectual curiosity and having interesting discussions about it. That's what we optimise for.