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sugarwater | 4 years ago

It's worth mentioning the the CEO Austen had a post on here (now deleted) proclaiming to have creating a bot army via stealing people's pictures on Instagram.

I would qualify that as "underhanded"

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wheelie_boy|4 years ago

Link to the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703224616/https://news.ycom...

It's also weird that the post is still up, but the username was changed from austenallred to another user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774

reducesuffering|4 years ago

Dang, is this a normal feature? Since when are users able to retroactively change the profile that made the comment? This looks like covering up a YC founder's past comment, but the archive still exists. According to snapshots it was modified over 2 years later.

kelnos|4 years ago

The incredibly gross thing is that all but two replies are encouraging of that kind of behavior. The two that are negative and call out the dishonesty are downvoted.

dragonwriter|4 years ago

a user, it might be noted, for whom that is the only comment.