[logicallee]

it just so happens that those interests are around supporting founders so they can build huge companies and disrupt major industries. (No joke.)

Question: do threads that are critical of YC companies get buried just because they're YC companies? (For example if Uber had YC investment, which a cursory glance says it doesn't, would the criticism of it have been buried by mods here)?

(I say this because there were a lot of critical stories about Uber recently, and in the past, too.)

[dang]

The answer to your question is "of course not". When stories are critical of YC or YC-funded companies, we moderate them less than we otherwise would. I've posted about this many times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date....

This isn't because YC doesn't care about HN's business value. It's because YC knows what HN's value consists of: the community's curiosity and trust. That's the global optimum, so that's what's in YC's interests. It would be foolish to optimize for anything else.

[logicallee]

Thanks, dang.

Though you've posted about it a lot I hadn't run across those comments yet - thanks for the links.