[dredmorbius]

Meta-discussion isn't in the spirit of intellectual curiosity. HN mods deprioritise and/or bury those threads. Even where the points made are otherwise correct or useful.

tomhow's acknowledged the criticism and revised his edit to reflect it. You've won your argument.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29788452>

[tomhow]

Thanks you.

For the record, I replied "Fine!" as a friendly acknowledgement of the community winning the argument. I collapsed some of the subthreads, because, at the time, these meta subthreads were taking up most of the main thread. However I deliberately left some uncollapsed – even though we would normally have collapsed all of them – so as not to hide the fact that there was debate about the title. I also turned off default penalties (flamewar detector, flags) and restored the submission to the front page to give it more exposure.

[kotaKat]

Aaaand now I've been deliberately censored with a [flagged] here. 10/10, bravo.

[tomhow]

I've disabled flags on your comment and uncollapsed it. The title was changed after the community made its feelings known and I found a way to include A16Z within the title. My replies were meant to be friendly not petulant. The story spent 8 hours on the front page, because we turned off penalties.

We have no interest in suppressing stories about any company or investor. A16Z is a completely separate entity from YC; It invests in YC companies and also may be seen to be competing with YC for early stage deals. These considerations don't factor into our moderation decisions.

What does matter is HN’s purpose: discovering content that gratifies intellectual curiosity and having interesting discussions about it. That's what we optimise for.

[dredmorbius]

Not by mods: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44761325>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363747>