[quinndiggity]

If ycombinator and their mods are more concerned with the promotion of one of their own investments, over discussion of its merits and feedback from the people who _would_ be the ones adopting and promoting it in their own companies if it indeed lived up to its own marketing, then I invite a ban for trying to keep hackernews honest and driven by community discussion, over a place for them to advertise, self promote, pat themselves on the back, and pad their wallets.

[dang]

Baiting the moderators is in poor taste and is not going to change our behavior. The way we moderate HN when YC or YC startups are involved has been stable for many years: we moderate less in such cases. You'll find many statements of this going back a long time here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Less, however, does not mean zero. You posted 15 aggressive comments in this thread; that's extreme. You've crossed well into trolling, and even descended into personal attack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724190). I don't know where this grudge is coming from, but it's time to stop.

Plenty of other commenters have been raising similar concerns (e.g. about hosted secrets); that's obviously fine. The difference is that they're doing it in a decent and non-vindictive way, as the site guidelines require.