It's this kind of bitchy, behind-the-scenes, handbags-at-ten-paces crap that I hate. Long on surmise, short on evidence, and it's not going to help.
I'm sure it matters to you, but I wish you'd take it somewhere else.
Here’s the HN post that Paul Graham, BDFL of Silicon Valley, won’t let me write.
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#12It sounds like this business isn't making any money and will go bust shortly. I'd say not buying it would be a good idea.
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#13Yes, I'm sure Paul Graham cares so much about VC negativity that he personally killed this commentary. Also, close your blinds, I think there are black helicopters circling...
I doubt he personally killed it, given that it was instantaneous and happened around 5:00am Pacific time.
The reason it's of interest is that Hacker News has been assigning personal penalties to the posts of people who are critical of venture capital. This is just one episode in an ongoing campaign of nonsense.
I'm not upset about this stuff. It doesn't bother me. In fact, the degree to which I was personally targeted (my posts invariably appear below where they should based on votes and post age, but I still have a 5+ karma average) makes me happy. I just like to draw attention to it because it shows how obsessively PG is working to manicure the reputation of a pseudomeritocracy that apparently can't handle people saying bad things about it.
VCs are passive-aggressive little girls if they can't handle people telling the truth about them.
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#14It's this kind of bitchy, behind-the-scenes, handbags-at-ten-paces crap that I hate. Long on surmise, short on evidence, and it's not going to help. I'm sure it matters to you, but I wish you'd take it somewhere else.
I hate it too, but I didn't start it.
The VCs have basically filled technology with petty high-school drama. By funding people like Jack Dorsey and Evan Speigel, they're directly responsible for the toxic climate.
The fact that Paul Graham goes to extremes to manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem deserves attention. Why? Because it shows the underlying weakness of this system. Things that are strong can stand to have bad things said about them, because the truth favors them.
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#15I turn on showdead and I found a comment about Vic Gundotra by a throwaway and posted a link to it in another thread.
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#16Yes, I'm sure Paul Graham cares so much about VC negativity that he personally killed this commentary. Also, close your blinds, I think there are black helicopters circling...
I doubt he personally killed it, given that it was instantaneous and happened around 5:00am Pacific time. The reason it's of interest is that Hacker News has been assigning personal penalties to the posts of people who are critical of venture capital. This is just one episode in an ongoing campaign of nonsense. I'm not upset about this stuff. It doesn't bother me. In fact, the degree to which I was personally targete…
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#17I investigated and those comments were autokilled. There are handful of phrases that cause comments containing them to be autokilled, and one is "circlejerk." I doubt we have lost any insightful contributions to HN by it.
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#18I turn on showdead and I found a comment about Vic Gundotra by a throwaway and posted a link to it in another thread.
Link to comment in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732425
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#19It's this kind of bitchy, behind-the-scenes, handbags-at-ten-paces crap that I hate. Long on surmise, short on evidence, and it's not going to help. I'm sure it matters to you, but I wish you'd take it somewhere else.
I hate it too, but I didn't start it. The VCs have basically filled technology with petty high-school drama. By funding people like Jack Dorsey and Evan Speigel, they're directly responsible for the toxic climate. The fact that Paul Graham goes to extremes to manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem deserves attention. Why? Because it shows the underlying weakness of this system. Things that are strong can…
Where by "manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem" you mean "autokilling comments with the token 'circlejerk' in them". Got it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate it too, but I didn't start it. The VCs have basically filled technology with petty high-school drama. By funding people like Jack Dorsey and Evan Speigel, they're directly responsible for the toxic climate. The fact that Paul Graham goes to extremes to manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem deserves attention. Why? Because it shows the underlying weakness of this system. Things that are strong can…
Where by "manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem" you mean "autokilling comments with the token 'circlejerk' in them". Got it.
This was written before pg's comment.