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If you go and remove someones work for no damn reason and I criticize you, that makes me mean; there is absolutely no logic in your post. The whole post was idi

by C1D 14y ago

If you go and remove someones work for no damn reason and I criticize you, that makes me mean; there is absolutely no logic in your post. The whole post was idiotic and was trying to deflect the fact that they filed a DMCA takedown when there was no evidence that the work (flatUI) belongs to them.

argonaut 14y ago
Ironically, this post perfectly fits the what the submitter is talking about since you don't even have your facts right. The submission appears to be as affiliated with Layervault as any HN submission is affiliated with YC (that is, not at all).
- schrijver 14y ago
  Of course they are associated. Y combinator gets cred for hosting a platform for ‘real hackers’, the hacker news users like the association with a prestigious incubator. The domain name chosen for hacker news reflects this. Layervault is trying to do the same trick for their brand.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    Do other people go around bragging to their friends "Yeah, I comment on HN stuff all the time!"... or is there some other benefit I have from "being associated with a[n incubator]" (I'm quite sure HN wouldn't want me to go around saying I'm "associated" with them.)))
    - schrijver 14y ago
      Hacker news reputation means something mainly in the context of the hacker news community, surely. But the Hacker news community manages to centralise a lot of discussion in the tech community, and how does it work that people are attracted to and stay loyal to HN? I do think the Ycombinator / Paul Graham brand has played a part in that.
schrijver 14y ago
This is not the Layervault blog, it‘s someone posting on Designer News, a Hacker News inspired discussion community launched by Layervault. (Of course, the confusion is deliberate, I imagine they hope that the association with a vibrant community will work well for Layervault and vice versa, like in Y combinator <-> Hacker News)

by C1D 14y ago

argonaut 14y ago

Ironically, this post perfectly fits the what the submitter is talking about since you don't even have your facts right. The submission appears to be as affiliated with Layervault as any HN submission is affiliated with YC (that is, not at all).

schrijver 14y ago
Of course they are associated. Y combinator gets cred for hosting a platform for ‘real hackers’, the hacker news users like the association with a prestigious incubator. The domain name chosen for hacker news reflects this. Layervault is trying to do the same trick for their brand.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Do other people go around bragging to their friends "Yeah, I comment on HN stuff all the time!"... or is there some other benefit I have from "being associated with a[n incubator]" (I'm quite sure HN wouldn't want me to go around saying I'm "associated" with them.)))
  - schrijver 14y ago
    Hacker news reputation means something mainly in the context of the hacker news community, surely. But the Hacker news community manages to centralise a lot of discussion in the tech community, and how does it work that people are attracted to and stay loyal to HN? I do think the Ycombinator / Paul Graham brand has played a part in that.

schrijver 14y ago

This is not the Layervault blog, it‘s someone posting on Designer News, a Hacker News inspired discussion community launched by Layervault. (Of course, the confusion is deliberate, I imagine they hope that the association with a vibrant community will work well for Layervault and vice versa, like in Y combinator <-> Hacker News)