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Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?

by purim 4y ago

randtrain34 4y ago
YC '16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scaling-boom-yc-w16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scali...
- purim 4y ago
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dang 4y ago
That's a clever insinuation, and since you've had many HN accounts in the past, and used them to abuse the site in similar ways, I'm going to be a notch less charitable than usual and conclude that you meant this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 as an innocent-sounding smear. For anyone worried about this kind of thing: what the commenter is insinuating is, in fact, just what we don't do. Here's tons of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... In particular, we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.
- purim 4y ago
  > since you've had many HN accounts in the past well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware. I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments. > we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged. Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out. "hey i think theres censorship" flagged and removed to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.
  - dang 4y ago
    Users have done the flagging. The only thing we did was unkill some of those comments.

Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?

by purim 4y ago

Think I remember lot of comments here criticizing Boom being downvoted and flagged. Is Boom part of YC by any chance?

YC '16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scaling-boom-yc-w16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scali...

purim 4y ago

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dang 4y ago

That's a clever insinuation, and since you've had many HN accounts in the past, and used them to abuse the site in similar ways, I'm going to be a notch less charitable than usual and conclude that you meant this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 as an innocent-sounding smear. For anyone worried about this kind of thing: what the commenter is insinuating is, in fact, just what we don't do. Here's tons of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... In particular, we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.

purim 4y ago
> since you've had many HN accounts in the past well aren't you the one now making big insinuations? I feel you are invading my privacy and making me feel unsafe so I guess I will use a VPN next time, thanks for making me aware. I don't think I'm alone with my assessment. I've seen threads where comments were downvoted and flagged when they were critical of certain YC companies, and I can't recall 100% is why I suggested the likelihood of the same pattern. I didn't say YOU removed it but the people in that thread for whatever reason felt justified to censor those comments. > we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged. Incorrect, you've removed my original comment which you completely took out of context and just assumed malice. This is a pretty aggressive stance, and it just reinforces what I've pointed out. "hey i think theres censorship" flagged and removed to the outsider doesn't it seem pretty clear? you should at least allow some discussion around this, maybe I was wrong, maybe I'm not but claiming you removed zero comments is incorrect here. It only adds fuel to the suspicion.
- dang 4y ago
  Users have done the flagging. The only thing we did was unkill some of those comments.