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Your aim is off the mark. The comment by pmarca says How did Hacker News evolve from the discussion board for YC, to the discussion board where the first comme
by lexcorvus 12y ago
Your aim is off the mark. The comment by pmarca says
How did Hacker News evolve from the discussion board for YC, to the discussion board where the first comment on any post involving a YC company is reliably someone crapping on it? What an amazing shift.
My comment was even-toned and didn't criticize any organization in particular. If writing that "[nonprofits] thus deserve extra scrutiny" constitutes "crapping on" anything, we are operating under very different definitions of what it means to crap on something.
(Bayes Impact has explicitly aligned themselves with the social justice movement; if I'd crapped on them, you'd have known it. Instead, I tried to write as even-handed a comment as I could while still making my point. Indeed, it took several edits to remove all traces of snark. I've been rewarded for my efforts with downvotes and a reprimand. This is not the way to foster reasoned discussion.)