Re:Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter
by tw1010 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:19PM
(#22047610)
They're not all bad, far from it. But sometimes a few actors poisons the well of a whole label (ehm, shark tank), causing some people to have an allergic reaction to the whole class (even if it isn't true that all of them are bad).
Re:Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter
by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:20PM
(#22048260)
I don't understand the allergy mechanism, though. Can't you just... mute the bad actors? I can't grasp the frame of mind where I'd need to preemptively mute people who are (believed by some guy known only as "Tom" to be) shallow VCs.
Re:Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter
by tw1010 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:02AM
(#22053029)
I mean the boring answer is that people have patience and energy constraints. They arbitrarily ignore the whole group because VC isn't adjacent enough to their life goals, or something, to warrant the energy necessary to pick out the patience-stealers from the insight-givers.
A well known investor on twitter actually did the 'follow, wait for follow back, then after some time unfollow' thing on me recently. When people do this, as a rule I unfollow them again when I notice, but for this person I actually didn't because they genuinely tweet interesting and useful things that I appreciate having in my feed!