I think that's a side-effect from allowing control of our industry messaging board to rest in the hands of YC instead of the community. I've actually hoped that

I think that's a side-effect from allowing control of our industry messaging board to rest in the hands of YC instead of the community. I've actually hoped that the balance would swing back to /r/programming where moderation is done by the community. Also the revenue to keep the site running would be generated by neutral-ish advertising instead of YC gaining value by being able to push their own startups. I suppose that this is a strange thing to say, as I work at a YC company which takes advantage of those connections... In fact we maybe draw on it too much (I do work at Clever, sorry if our posts bothered you!). Overall, I think YC are pretty benign overlords, and they have an incentive to not rock the boat. YMMV though :)