dang 10 months ago

You can't post personal attacks to HN. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597837.

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  • bschmidt1 10 months ago

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    • tptacek 10 months ago

      "Andrew was making a fool of himself" is a personal attack. This is not a good forum for this kind of information sharing. You can maybe do it, but only if you're ultra careful; if it's a personal critique of someone who might read the thread, and it's easy to write, it's probably problematic.

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      • bschmidt1 10 months ago

        It was in reply to a dishonest comment that was taken down. It's normal to use elevated rhetoric when correcting the record about a false idea being put forth and made public.

        Furthermore saying "probably because the CTO is a dick" to a random person online - in response to a question about why their startup is blacklisted - is definitely fair game. How many people have said "{insert CEO name} is a dick" on these forums?

        https://hn.algolia.com/?q=is+a+dick

        I think you guys are way too sensitive, unless "reputation management" is part of the YC offering it's a bad look to even be involved in my comments like this. Let people say what they want within reason.

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by_Seeing 10 months ago

I'll just speak up so this comment isn't left unchallenged. I'm friends with the folks on the Sourcetable team and I think they're good people, including the CTO.

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