Re:Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
by dang on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:02AM
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This feels like a spaghetti-at-the-wall sort of objection blob but let's see if I can disentangle some spaghetti.
When I said moderators didn't do anything, I meant we didn't penalize the post or override any of the software affecting its rank (or anything else). I was not talking about Sartrean inaction, which ontologically is also action.
Sometimes we do specific things, depending on...things? Who doesn't "admit" that? Everything the mods do is special treatment? Not following you. Instinct? Yes. Whim? No.
Stripe wasn't coached in how to become a community darling. At least I never saw that. They were just really good at making products, writing, and interacting with the community. Is the community naturally biased towards YC? In some ways yes and in other ways biased against - it's complicated. jgc (assuming you mean jgrahamc of Cloudflare) is not part of a YC startup, so I assume that's actually a counterexample.
Unconscious bias? I strongly agree. But if you're making some specific point about it, I'd like to hear something specific—otherwise it seems kind of hand-wavey.
When I said moderators didn't do anything, I meant we didn't penalize the post or override any of the software affecting its rank (or anything else). I was not talking about Sartrean inaction, which ontologically is also action.
Sometimes we do specific things, depending on...things? Who doesn't "admit" that? Everything the mods do is special treatment? Not following you. Instinct? Yes. Whim? No.
Stripe wasn't coached in how to become a community darling. At least I never saw that. They were just really good at making products, writing, and interacting with the community. Is the community naturally biased towards YC? In some ways yes and in other ways biased against - it's complicated. jgc (assuming you mean jgrahamc of Cloudflare) is not part of a YC startup, so I assume that's actually a counterexample.
Unconscious bias? I strongly agree. But if you're making some specific point about it, I'd like to hear something specific—otherwise it seems kind of hand-wavey.