[cperciva]

I am assuming the access to this list will be tightly guarded.

This seems to be the case so far (YC has kept track of "problem VCs" for a long time), but I don't see why it should be. One of the few things more powerful than "if you sexually harass a YC founder, you'll be shunned by all future YC founders" is "if you sexually harass a YC founder, you'll be shunned by everybody".

[tptacek]

Because you get 90% of the public benefit by making a VC persona non grata with YC, but eliminate ~80% of the drama? This seems like an extraordinarily reasonable tradeoff.

[cperciva]

I've never thought of YC as being particularly averse to drama. And given that much of the drama would be news stories about how YC is trying to protect women from being sexually harassed, I really don't see the downside for them.

[tptacek]

As you can clearly see from this thread, that's not what most of the drama will be about.