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by yodon 181 days ago
Streisand effect?

A mod changed the title to something other than the originally submitted original article title, to protect a major VC.

Not cool.

2 comments

I haven't looked at the article but its title is pretty baity and that's probably why we changed it, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Bad call. 'Major VC firm investing in slop farm' is the newsworthy aspect here. 'startup selling slop as a service' is mildly interesting but there are lots of companies like that already.
OK fair enough, I've found a way to include A16Z.
> Major VC firm investing in slop farm

And this would be an entirely clickbait-free, fact-based summary of what they are doing.

It's not far off fraud as a service. This activity could get people prosecuted in EU countries and the UK.

The baity-feeling title is actually pretty spot-on, honestly.
And it’s been shunted to the third page as of 8:20 AM ET the next morning. Really interesting behaviour going on.