[obviouslygreen]

...middlebrow... characteristic signature of uncharitability... crosses over into mistakenness.

This is honestly why I sometimes have a hard time taking YC seriously... your essays are really informative and insightful, and YC does and sponsors some really cool things, but the inability to either neutrally run a web forum or stay hands-off instead of jumping in with borderline flames when HN or YC engenders any kind of negative feedback puts a dent in that good impression.

[pg]

Actually responding to the various types of bad behavior is essential to running a web forum. In fact it's probably the single most important thing one has to do. And I call out this type whenever I see it, whether it has to do with YC or not.

[wuster]

Hey pg, I've followed your writings ever since Hackers & Painters was published, and you've thoroughly influenced the decisions I've taken at every major juncture of my career. Sorry if the initial comment was too quick trigger, I did not mean any malice towards the project creators. I've left more useful feedback elsewhere in this thread.

The essence of my discomfort with this is that because this is YC's slogan, having a YC startup publish it with the blessing of YC the organization seems a bit like self-worship. I never got the sense through any of your writings that you'd advocate for this sort of thing. I guess I interpreted it more as YC worship than a what's presented by the message, and I doubt I am the only one that might think that.

My humble 2 cents. Thanks for HN.

[pg]

Alvy Brooks is not a YC startup, and we didn't ask them to do this. But it was cool with me, since they're donating the proceeds to Watsi. And the poster looks good.

[DanBC]

There's no useful feedback.

"I don't like it" or "I think it's pretentious" is a useless post.

[logn]

pg's comments have a downvote button too... If everyone agreed with you, his comment might be an indecipherable gray-on-gray. I think he has as much right to comment how he wants as the rest of us do and just like many OP's who defend their articles or startups on threads here.