[tptacek]

Let's please not invite drama onto HN.

If you have a story to submit about how a magazine chose to report on a subject or how that subject responded, submit it. It might still be too superficially dramatic for HN, and it might get buried or flagged off the site. But it might not, and if you really believe the story has substance, there's not much harm in a good-faith submission.

This, on the other hand, is merely a solicitation of opinions --- not even informed opinions --- about interpersonal drama unrelated to HN.

I flagged it and, for my part, would be thankful if people didn't post stuff like this to HN.

[harrylyme]

Sorry you feel that way: It's really more about how free, reasonable, expression is being suppressed on twitter.com based on a somewhat radical slant on what is acceptable speech in the tech community.

Shanley Kane writes on tech, with an emphasis on venture capitalist like YCombinator. Actually YCombinator is often the focus of Shanley Kane's criticism of VC in Silicon Valley.

http://bit.ly/1impCn6

Hacker News, to it's credit, seems to be more open/less gameable than other sites, and being able to express your own opinions on tech culture/community -- is a very significant issue.