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teruakohatu 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for...

> Do you think YC-backed companies would have respected this guideline if it was posted on some other website they wanted to operate in?

That is a false equivalence. What a YC-backed company does is not relevant to how a YC-owned web forum operates.

ludicrousdispla 4 months ago [–]

They're asking a question, not making an equivalence. And I'll add that YC founders/companies do have some specific advantages on this forum, so it's worth knowing if they are held to any standard.

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