Seriously guys Tichy has a point here. I am a big fan of YC startups ( even though we did not make it this time and sure will next one), but telling us about the night before and the day after is not really "feeding one's intellectual curiosity". So please let's try to stay around The "Hacker News" theme until we change it to something broader.
PS:"Matt, this is not personal at all. We just want to know what's for diner"
Put yourself in their shoes. If you had a choice between making people happy on a web forum and doing what you think is best for your StartUp, which would you choose?
There are cases where StealthMode makes sense, right? Without knowing what they're doing, it'd be hard to give a good reason why they shouldn't be in StealthMode.
Drunk dudes whizzing on trees, a couple shots before the meeting, "strap on some plums" t-shirts. Apparently even Y-Combinator can't escape the inevitable consequence of nerds turning into frat boys as soon as they get a little money...
From what I've read on his blog, it seems like Matt was never really a nerd to start with. His startup seems to be involved with sports somehow from what I can gather?
I've said it earlier and I'll say it again - not all hackers and tech entrepreneurs are 'nerds' by the stereotypical definition.
Putting together comments from Matt's blog and the Demo day article from Fred Wilson (?), I think they must be the ones doing fantasy sports betting. Also fits with Matt's background.
Thank you, but the fix is probably to not care about getting karma bombed. It's a childish thing, so it really shouldn't get under my skin like that. I'd hate to use your time on something that shouldn't matter.
You know, I've been doing some thinking about that. I'm about to kick off a community site and I'm debating whether or not to allow downvoting at all. I think I'll only allow downvoting to 1 karma (meaning a comment is only downvotable if it's above 1 karma), and see how that turns out.
If you are looking for feedback, I can think of one. Maybe it has to do with comments like these:
"Some idiot just karma bombed me. I lost around 10 points. Coward hiding in the shadows.. Step up"
Calling someone an idiot/coward.
Making a fuss about points lost.
I guess this is getting way offtopic now. A book pg highly recommends and that I recently read again is great if you are looking to learn: How to win friends and influence people.
