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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by dang on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:26AM (#17807469)
You make a good point about withstanding rejection. But from the discussions that I overheard this afternoon, part of the motivation is that it's what the YC partners wanted to do anyway. That is, it's not only about making people feel better (though we certainly do want that), but also about realizing the original vision. I think Adora is planning to write a blog post about this.

If it works out, then the mistake will turn out to have been more of a catalyst than a mistake, which would be a good outcome. Hopefully people will feel that way in the end.

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by shawn on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:41AM (#17807541)
I felt so bad for whoever made the email mistake. I hope they're feeling alright. It's a bug everyone could see themselves letting slip through.
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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by dang on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:23AM (#17808199)
I checked with him and he's fine, but I think probably also in shock. In case it helps, I haven't seen any signs of blame; everyone knows we could easily have done it ourselves. The general feeling seems to be that it motivated us to do something that we wanted to do in the first place, but thought we couldn't.
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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by enapyggybank on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:16PM (#17810927)
Yea, it's a shitty position to be in but it could happen to any of us. Hope he won't be too hard on himself. With that being said, we were one of the originally rejected and then accepted startups. I guess that means we're part of the advisory track. I just hope that YC can still dedicate the originally-intended resources to the advisory group.
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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by telltruth on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:38AM (#17807788)
Could you please let me know if I am banned? I criticized Sam Altman and since then I get error posting any new story “you are posting too fast”. Thanks.
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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by dang on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:19AM (#17808179)
You're not banned, and we don't ban people for "criticizing Sam Altman". But you have been breaking the HN guidelines badly and when people do that we rate limit their accounts. That's one way we have of trying to stave off the decline of this forum.

We're happy to take rate limits off if people give us reason to believe that they will follow the guidelines in the future. Among other things that requires being civil, which "I love your naive hero worship", "What the F are you smoking", and so on, definitely are not.

The guidelines also ask you to email us instead of posting off-topic moderation questions to threads, especially because it's random whether or not we see them there. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules more carefully from now on?

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