What to Do

Regardless of whom you're putting down, how right you are, or feel you are, comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43370236 are badly against the site guidelines. Please don't post any more of these to HN.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

It should be acceptable to criticize rich, powerful people in unemotional terms, but I wasn't even doing that. I was summarizing the other comments on this thread.

Here are examples of comments (that remain visible) that I was summarizing:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515252

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526888

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527106

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515723

In the future I can be more careful to say something like, "Based on the comments here, people are saying that he..." but I thought that was implied in my comment already.

I'm sorry but to me at least, this was not clear in your comment at all.

Generally it's a good idea to explicitly disambiguate intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

The question asked for specific issues with a specific person.

The comment flagged, that status apparently endorsed by your own response, answers that specific question.

It's extraordinarily difficult to write a critique of someone, particularly where that critique focuses on political, social, and personality aspects, without hitting some nerves, individually or collectively.

I'll note that HN's policy is to moderate YC firms less (and yes, that's not "not at all" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974170>), rather than more. I'd suggest a similar approach to YC personnel, particularly current/past leadership and/or founders.