Whose egos?

a16z.

Same reason this post got flagged and died.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356858

wait whose a16z. Can you provide me more context about it?

Also what was written in that comment if you can tell and why it died?

Another quick question but is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews? Seems like its possible with things like https://hn.live/ or I saw some other website like this as well. Perhaps, something like this can store flag/dead posts but I am not really sure if it has any use case but I am just curious what was written in that post.

>is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews?

they're not deleted, just hidden. you can toggle "showdead" in your profile settings.

I'm curious. Are you saying that tech bros on this site will just downvote/flag stuff like that's against their "heroes", that would be pretty standard I guess. Or are you implying a conspiracy where somehow they exert influence on the moderators to kill the posts/comments?

It's not only downvoted, it was flagged, and dead. (flag accepted by moderator, no one else will see this comment thread without expanding)

Mr. Trump good.

Trump derangement syndrome bad.

If Mr. Trump does what you say eventually, then it was good. (see rule #1)

I see this frequently on HN since the re-election, won't speculate as to why: only way around the downvote is to criticize policy generically, untethered to time, with some sort of micro-focus like you're sharing new information about how things work, not discussing current events.

Ill speculate as to why, paid astroturfers are posting it. Look at Twitter, most accounts that post that insane trump loving crap are in third world countries.

Probably just a coincidence that Garry Tan and Marc Andreseen have so publicly aligned themselves with a cabal of pedophiles.

Of course, because this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen.

> this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen

You're mixing up your VCs?