Another ban wave just happened.

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

As a counter-argument to my own theory, Seibel's not the CEO like Pao was, he's just a high-ranking board member. I think he's basically 2nd in command after Huffman, unlike Pao who was 1st in command.

And also Seibel is CEO of Y Combinator, so unlike Pao he has a lot of forum experience.

However ycombinator forums (like news.ycombinator.com) run a pretty tight ship... so I expect a lot more bans to continue as they tighten the belt in the name of increasing quality.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wait Seibel is the CEO of Y Combinator? That's a bigger deal than reddit, isn't it? Lots of people like Y Combinator. If he actually just enforces a policy against "hate" this seems like a good thing but... the "it's ok to be bad to majorities" thing doesn't really seem like it's a good start to all this.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, reddit is ranked #18 in the world and ycombinator is ranked #6198 right now: https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com

But ycombinator is owned by investor Paul Graham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

Paul Graham also invented the Pyramid of Debate that we use as the core of the moderation for saidit (which I think ycombinator forums also uses in some form): https://saidit.net/static/PyramidDebate.jpg

And ycombinator has funded many many tech startups. Including reddit in 2006 as a matter of fact! Aaron Swartz joined the reddit team about the time they got ycombinator funding, and then left a year later when they sold it to conde nast, after building the reddit codebase both reddit and saidit still use to this day.

[–]cloudrabbit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is it even possible to build a decently-sized startup without selling your soul to venture capitalists?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're trying!