LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

Post by bebop » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

roenxi wrote: post #360

bebop wrote: post #354

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I appreciate that this is probably a no win situation. Thanks as always for doing your best and keeping this community healthy.

There isn't a loss. There is nothing wrong with adding some sass to the comment if the moderator hat comes off. It'd be unreasonable to expect him to turn a blind eye to a situation where he has more at stake and better information than 80% of the comments. Dan's opinion is only different from the average HN commentor because it leads to people being banned. As long as there is a careful separation of personal opinio…

Post by towergratis » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

dasickis wrote: post #120

I'm the person this original tweet was about. None of you know any of the internal details but what I can state is that Paul has no idea what he's talking about and later admits to the fact I wasn't lying. Here's the order of events: 1. I went to a neighborhood clinic in Oakland, CA that's literally next door to my house, I can see the church from my window. Paul lives in NYC which is on the opposite end of the count…

Post by Aeolun » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:19 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #193

Tenoke wrote: post #69

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I'm guessing he broke an internal rule about talking of what's said in the founders forum, while the founder is breaking unrelated outside rules and being a dick, which isn't as fireable.

Why is it not though? Intentionally misleading people is how you get Theranos. Being a dick is how you get a TK@Uber as a leader. Neither of those are examples one should follow of "how to be a leader"

Post by ping_pong » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #363

ping_pong wrote: post #342

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Gotta love the rationalization. In March there was a lot of issues with supply of vaccines and the program was intended to specifically target underprivileged people because COVID is drastically affecting them more than people. But you said to yourself, fuck their rules, I found a news article that justifies me jumping the line. So you hacked the system and jumped the line and got yourself vaccinated ahead of someone…

No offence intended by the following question, but if it’s not made clear who the vaccines are intended for, how can it be “hacking the system”? Hacking the system implies you know the intent but you ignore it and used the system in a way it was not designed.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #261

minimaxir wrote: post #68

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Per the tweet replies, Paul Biggar's company that YC funded has been defunct, so that likely makes YC's calculus to remove him easier (optics aside).

FWIW I don't think that would much affect the decision. In past similar cases, where the startup wasn't defunct, YC has divested. I've never been part of any such decision, but I do know YC and the people who have to make such decisions, and from what I've seen they'd be reasoning from first principles or at least trying to.