Comment by Tabular-Iceberg
Comment by Tabular-Iceberg 2 days ago
Flagged and dead? Are we to take that as Y-Combinator officially endorsing violent rioting and property destruction?
Comment by Tabular-Iceberg 2 days ago
Flagged and dead? Are we to take that as Y-Combinator officially endorsing violent rioting and property destruction?
Flagging is one thing, but I assume that there is a human in the loop before a user is put in the dead state.
There isn't. Almost everything you see that's killed has been put into that state without any moderator action. We review the ones we have time to review but that can be hours or days later, and we don't get to them all because there are so many (though users can vouch them or email us to bring anything to our attention to be reviewed).
Further, even if we leave something dead, it's no indication of any "agreement" or "endorsement" of anything. We're not here to promote any editorial line. All we care about is whether a comment is within the guidelines:
I'd say it's the rejection of a tangential political snipe in support of autocratic authoritarianism, in a place where it isn't going to lead to a fleshed-out discussion.
Keep turning the screws on people, and some people will turn to property destruction. The individual acts are wrong and misguided. But the overall dynamic is completely understandable, and ignoring it is as disingenuous as "let them eat cake".
What makes you think this? It was flagged by users. No moderators had touched it, or seen it.