I'll venture to say that no matter who was right/wrong you may just have taken a significant step towards not being accepted.

And on that note, may I advise everyone involved to stand down? You guys have both gotten a shot off at each other . . . now go and build your great products!

After a comment like that from pg what is to stop these people from creating new YC accounts to apply under?

And the transfer window closed two days ago!

(football ... uh, I mean .... "soccer" joke, sorry).

Good example of what not to do. Disputes should be settled privately and quickly.

Welcome to to the banned for life club.

Sheesh, what could you have possibly said on TechCrunch?

Could it also be that he is selling illegal drugs over the internet (and linking to the site from his news.yc profile)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratom#Legal_Status

No, that has nothing to do with it. If you reread that link, you would find that Kratom is only illegal in Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, and Burma and I don't live in either of those countries.

I leave finding that post as an exercise for the reader. Brett or someone else found and linked to it the first time this came up. It's on a blog post comment, not the forums.

it looks like nostrademons found it.

Membership: 3 and counting. 'Grats on being the founding member.

If we get to 10 I'll print membership cards.

Why?

I thought it was just a joke.

"or maybe just happy" - kurt cobain

my favorite song of his

The other guy at least confined it to his blog and didn't post his dirty laundry here...

He self-submitted the link.

Actually, despite the drama queening, I upmodded both posts (perhaps thereby obliterating my vote weighting) because they reflect an interesting pattern of hacker psychology that I've been thinking about lately. Once said thoughts are in a bit more of a coherent state I'll make a post about it.

are you talking about the two yc posters or the guy that was "poached"? I could be wrong but doesn't seem like either of the yc posters were hackers or into programming

The two YC posters. I don't know if they're hackers per se, but the fact that they hang out here makes them good enough as data points.

(someone correct me if i'm wrong) so you're going to write about hacker psychology using two people that aren't hackers?

Based on the 1st post, i'm pretty sure that neither of them are

(sorry, I think you posted that while I was in the middle of editing the comment you were replying to)

it's cool =)

here are reasons why I don't feel either of the posters are hackers:

1) this probably wouldn't be an issue if either of them were b/c they can still do what they feel are the crucial parts of the project and recruit on the side... the 1st post seemed desperate...

2) the "poached" person probably would not have been "poached" if his project was already underway with mutual contributions to the project by everyone in the team. in my experience 1 reason a programmer leaves his team (whether it's right or wrong) is b/c he feels that he's doing all the work

If we disqualified all developers with personal issues from investment, there would be no-one left. Emotional intensity and productivity seem to be positively correlated.