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Was the startup girlfriend thread deleted?
If so, why? It raises an interesting issue of work life balance in the startup climate.
- andrewcooke 13y agoyes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815670
- benologist 13y agoProbably because it's lolcats for HN.
- mindcrime 13y agoIt's too bad. Nobody wants HN to become Reddit or Slashdot, to be sure. But at the same time, I think it could be argued that we're too stuffy around here sometimes, and take ourselves way too seriously. Letting something in that's silly and light-hearted, but that actually touches on an important touch, seems like a good thing to me, as long as it isn't too often.
- benologist 13y agoFunny pics attract people who come here for funny pics and spammers that want that traffic. Source: Digg then Reddit.
- coherentpony 13y agoIt was tech related. Posts about the protests in Turkey are also surfacing on here and they are hardly tech related. They also appear on reddit. Logic fail.