this feels like an attempt to hive mind against anything cool from this company

Threatening a guy for making an open source version of replit sounds pretty crummy in my eyes.

I think it's fair to evaluate a company's behavior before engaging in business with them. And I personally dislike persons in power abusing their position, which is why I remembered the company name almost two years later.

I haven't heard of any similar behavior since then, which is a good sign. But a reputation can be a hard thing to shake. The CEO should have considered that before doing what he did.

I think people are smart enough to receive extra information and do whatever they want with that.

+1, this is unnecessary.

Alternatively, it's called consequences of your actions. Don't be surprised if shitty behaviour comes back to bite you.

It's weird that this was near the top of the comments (second under the pinned one by the CEO) and has now been pushed way down the very bottom. I'd suspect replit has special mod powers that they're using here to manipulate the conversation via their investments from ycombinator. Interesting.

Replit doesn't have special mod powers but a HN moderator downweighted this subthread, the same way we do any generic/indignant/offtopic subthread when we see it. That's standard HN moderation.

In this case we did so less than we normally would because we moderate HN less when the topic is a YC co - see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for lots of past explanation.

I for one downvoted it and I have no relationship with Replit.

This founder has extreme views and full of hyperbole: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1504092244168478728?s=20

Is this the best you can find? not even top 10 bangers.

Makes it very much seem like you were only sorry you got caught — and were actually never sorry and didn’t learn from what should have been a teachable moment. Sad.