[gscott]

It is possible that people expect YC funded companies to have high moral integrity and that drives the posts when YC funded companies do things that are against this purposely built-up group of persons moral compasses.

[prodigal_erik]

Why? YC does not have an unblemished record of perceiving and rejecting scumbags. pg described airbnb as "among the nicest of the people we've funded" and yet: http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...

I want to like them, but they aren't perfect, and they haven't made a big deal out of "not evil" in their positioning.