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LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by ezekg »

rafaelero wrote: post #18

It's a bit distressing how organizations try so hard to keep a good reputation all the time. I mean, is it really that bad to publically admit that you are composed of people with questionable morals? For example, in the first company I used to work, I was always bitching about how things could improve. I got fired because I was "bringing the moral down" and was "working against the company". I could see why they wou…

People don't know how to disagree anymore. It's disheartening, because I like a good disagreement and the deep debates that can come out of them ... that is, as long as the conversation is void of emotional temper-tantrums (and in a lot of cases these days, fear of cancel-culture.)

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by choppaface »

I have worked for YC founders that have shared far more disturbing things from the YC forum to non-members. If the banning is for violating privacy or public mocking (no matter how small of a “public” it might be), the YC moderation here is pretty biased. The internal forum is pretty huge now, I guess they’re Doing Things That Don’t Scale (TM).

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by smcl »

TigeriusKirk wrote: post #12

We're about to see the Streisand Effect in action.

I agree that it’ll get more attention than it otherwise would, but I think that is a desirable outcome for YC. The more people who see the message “if you publicly badmouth us, you will be punished” the better for them.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by ezekg »

antipaul wrote: post #26
rafaelero wrote: post #18

It's a bit distressing how organizations try so hard to keep a good reputation all the time. I mean, is it really that bad to publically admit that you are composed of people with questionable morals? For example, in the first company I used to work, I was always bitching about how things could improve. I got fired because I was "bringing the moral down" and was "working against the company". I could see why they wou…

Critique is good but depends on whether it is constructive or not constructive. And that’s a bit of a subjective call

Maybe I have a minority opinion, but critique does not always need to be constructive.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by kubb »

saltedonion wrote: post #19

I’m confused. So YC kicked out the guy who complained about it on Twitter and not the people who advocated for lying to skip lines? Wtf?

Why is that confusing? If you condemn the in-group publicly, it's a sign of betrayal, and they kick you out. Monkeys strong together, that's all there is to it.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by ible »

What an excellent demonstration of what values/norms a group really cares about.

Biggar violated the all time favourite in-group rule: Don't talk out of school. Don't talk about fight club. Don't snitch.

The other founders violated a norm against pushing yourself ahead and taking advantage of others that doesn't even seem to hold in many groups, especially upper class/wealthy ones.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by courtf »

I waited until I was eligible, which was about a month ago. Anyone could have lied about their eligibility and gotten shots early, and although I wasn't comfortable doing so, I also don't begrudge people who did. Frankly, the vaccine should have been distributed more widely from the beginning. It was disheartening to watch the politics play out where only the "most deserving" people were granted vaccine, which quickly turned into "hospital executives, their families, & high ranking admin" before they got around to the most deserving.

I certainly wouldn't have encouraged a group of wealthy or soon-to-be wealthy tech founders to lie for vaccine. "Hacking the system" has always implied a sort of robinhood ethos, at least to me, not just greed purely for its own sake. I guess it's easy to be confused when you were raised inside the bubble and everything is monopoly money.

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