[coldtea]

>Is this not the gratuitous negativity that Hacker News seeks to avoid? Satire is not universally good. Many start-ups in their infancy could be classified using that list.

And many startups are crap because of that, both in their infancy and later development.

There's nothing wrong with criticizing BAD things to snip them in the bud, and satire is not "gratuitous negativity", it's critique + humor.