The fact that this was reposted only 6 months later makes this a dupe by HN's standard (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Normally we would mark it as such, which removes a thread from HN's front page.
"We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story" is the first rule of HN moderation. That does not mean we don't moderate at all—that would be too big a loophole. But we always moderate less than we otherwise would.
A related principle is that we trust readers to be smart enough to make up their own minds. Between this thread and the one I posted yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091622) I think HN commenters are doing a good job of that.
Edit: although it follows from the above, I should probably say explicitly that the [flagged] marker on the post is because of flags that came from users, not moderators.
The fact that this was reposted only 6 months later makes this a dupe by HN's standard (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Normally we would mark it as such, which removes a thread from HN's front page.
I'm not going to do that, though, because the principle described here is more important: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
"We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story" is the first rule of HN moderation. That does not mean we don't moderate at all—that would be too big a loophole. But we always moderate less than we otherwise would.
A related principle is that we trust readers to be smart enough to make up their own minds. Between this thread and the one I posted yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091622) I think HN commenters are doing a good job of that.
Edit: although it follows from the above, I should probably say explicitly that the [flagged] marker on the post is because of flags that came from users, not moderators.