I'll be real, it's interesting to post this stuff and see how many downvotes saying factually correct stuff will get you compared to comments.
It's like people downvote when they have nothing to say. What's wrong with this comment, HN? Is it too on the nose? We are supposed to wrap all of our disagreements in snide pedantry, no?
We supposed to act like most of YCs founders and to use tacky business speak when we hit any rough patches?
Is this too mean to change the world? I see it's flagged now. Good, gooood. dang and company and YCs alums and all you groupies close ranks and edit, shuffle, and remove posts and people when they talk a little too different from you. That's why this place is a dead echo chamber composed of 90% males of the same demographics.
The GP comment was originally extremely trollish, which was obviously why it got downvoted and flagged. The commenter later replaced it with something completely anodyne, making the original responses seem unreasonable. That's abusive. I've responded in more detail below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066921.
> I'll be real, it's interesting to post this stuff and see how many downvotes saying factually correct stuff will get you compared to comments.
You're getting downvoted and flagged not because you're saying "factually correct stuff", but because your post is full of incoherent rambling and baseless accusations – before you edited and completely changed it, that is.
And for the record, I'm not a fan of Paul Graham, far from it.
What part is baseless? Sorry for the edit, I know that it's too critical for dang and HN readers, but I promise, having been on Reddit since the summer it came out, that it is as accurate as it can be from my perspective.
You call it rambling because you don't agree with it.
Posting something trollish, then replacing it with reasonable text and saying it was "too critical for dang and HN readers" is an abusive trick. You even smeared someone as being responsible for someone else's death. That's just vicious.
I'm not sure what to do. This is easily a bannable offence. You can't post things to HN like your original comment, which was horrible. Editing in so misleading and nasty a way is also egregious. Even the posts you left up, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066185 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066560 are egregious, and the latter is a shameful personal attack to boot.
On the other hand, I can give you the benefit of the doubt in a couple of ways: everyone goes on tilt sometimes, and most of us post things that we have reason to feel ashamed of later. Since we try to err on the side of giving people second chances, I'm not going to ban you for all of this. But please clean up your act if you want to keep posting to HN. We're trying against the odds to have an internet forum that hovers at least an inch or two above the bottom of the barrel, and behavior like you've contributed here just pushes it all the way down.
HN commenters need to at least try to follow the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Regardless of what you feel you owe pg or YC or HN mods or me personally, you owe this community much, much better if you're participating in it.
