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by ashtonkem 2015 days ago
Without taking sides on this, the rapid deletion and downvoting of this article is not a super great look for this community, even if it’s just a bunch of people who like PG and don’t like criticism of him.
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It might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).
Michael Church definitely has an axe to grind, and it’s certainly fair to complain about that. I personally think that he’d sway more people to his side of thinking with a less acerbic style, but that’s just me.

The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.

The subheading is really unfortunate. I don't always agree with pg, but I think Y Combinator is a great thing.
It might also have to do with the fact that the author removed it from their own site and the link is now dead.