[plinkplonk]

My reason for the downvote, snark aimed at HN

e.g: " they either are set to dead for some reason "

For the one example I looked at (from the links you provided) PG explained that the reason it was set to dead was that it was a duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746980. That isn't "some reason". That is a very clear reason.

"YC community felt either threatened or uninterested"

The first guess is stupid.

What basis do you have for this? Just state the facts ("These didn't get many upvotes") and leave the amateur psychoanalysis where it belongs.

Imagining conspiracy theories where there aren't any is worth a downvote.

As sachinag points out above, if the community didn't up vote the submission, it didn't upvote the submission. That's all.

Now if something you submitted didn't get any upvotes there is no need to whine about it or imagine a conspiracy. It happens to all of us.

[vulpes]

Thank you for your feedback, trying to come up with a concrete answer to OP's question before this post runs its course is tough, as is finding good examples of past submissions. Perhaps searchyc.com doesn't include dead articles, maybe I'm missing a great opportunity to submit techstars related content, but examples I gave are indeed quite shitty and rest of the argument totally breaks down.

I do present you with 1 interesting discussion on a few similarities between techstars and ycominator startups (Loopt/Brightkite, Foodzie/Foodoro and IntenseDebate/Disqus) which of course brings up great points for both sides of the argument: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=547991

[plinkplonk]

"great points for both sides of the argument"

What argument?

No one here is arguing there aren't similarities between YC startups or TS startups (which is what the discussion you pointed to seems to be about. One fellow seemed to make nebulous accusations and PG responded strongly http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548102).

I don't see the "similarity" argument in the comments above anywhere. I am not sure why you provided this link as supporting "both sides of the argument".

so again, what argument is this new link supporting? Your "argument" (such as it was) was that the YC community is threatened by TS and so doesn't upvote or flags content about them. And when asked for supporting rationale you don't have any.

Fwiw I don't have a startup, have no plans of starting one in the near future and YC doesn't operate where I live. I hang out here because it is a great forum full of interesting people, contributing great comments and topics. That is it.

Ok. You asked why you were downvoted and I said why I downvoted. I am done with this thread. Onward!

[andrewhyde]

Interesting discussion here. I don't buy into the conspiracy theory at all. We all have a deep respect for YC and HN, and I don't usually try to press stories here (it is their sandbox after all, and I don't think it would be too respectful to jump up and down to press the startups).

If there is something we can share, teach or learn, we are here.