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I agree. This reminiscent of a manager that wants to make a mark by creating arbitrary, vague rules out of the blue. This a community. Was there a "we think we

I agree. This reminiscent of a manager that wants to make a mark by creating arbitrary, vague rules out of the blue. This a community. Was there a "we think we may have a gratuitous negativity problem" discussion? Thin end of the wedge, perhaps. I hope not. (From the article) "Too much gratuitous negativity might be the difference between someone giving up on a crazy idea and building the next Airbnb." If negative, anonymous feedback here disuades and disenchants them, what hope is there? Are we going to have a Safe Place section of the site, to protect applicants from all bad things? Bad things happen. Mean people will say mean things on the Internet. Life is hard.

krebby 12y ago
> If negative, anonymous feedback here disuades and disenchants them, what hope is there? Absolutely. See Dropbox's Show HN, the slashdot iPod announcement, and every other worthwhile product ever. As a community we're pretty bad at picking successes.
- pekk 12y ago
  People are also erroneously overrating things all the time. The problem with our predictions isn't a skew to negativity, just the normal inability to predict the future due to lack of knowledge.
  - krebby 12y ago
    There's also a definite survivorship bias (and an equally strong failure bias) to remember only the outliers. Most ideas fall squarely in the middle and we promptly forget about them. (obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1497/ https://xkcd.com/1497/)