Comment by dang
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.
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.
"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.
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.
TBF, however, random guys (and gals, and all that lieth betwixt and beyond) are who effect most of HN's moderation through votes and flags.
So if someone such as tptacek suggests that a comment goes beyond HN guidelines, it's generally worth consideration.
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