> 1) Filter out troll applications and applications with fake votes and other ineligible applications.
How exactly do you identify "troll" applications? The most important ideas are often the most likely to be perceived as an act of trolling.
How exactly do you identify "troll" applications? The most important ideas are often the most likely to be perceived as an act of trolling.
The OP is referring to Pinboard which was a joke submission.
Otherwise the submission is perfectly fine. :p
"The only restrictions on acceptable teams are founders must be willing to work on their ideas full-time, and teams can’t have previously taken money from investors."
What if we haven’t yet received investment, but we have a ton of traction, users, revenue, etc.?
We want YC Fellowship to really help teams that are just starting off, or have been struggling to get traction. If you’re doing really well, we’ll likely ask you to apply for the next batch of Y Combinator.
In this case, the normal selection process has been changed by throwing the decision to Hacker News. And the people have spoken!
Accusing me of trolling is not just dismissive, but implies I'm acting in bad faith. That's a pretty serious thing to say about someone.
Not necessarily. I troll people all the time by saying things that are true but sound wrong to the average person, and never in bad faith. PG and Zed Shaw frequently do the same thing, albeit in different ways, and I wouldn't say that they're acting in bad faith either.
To the extent the book Made To Stick is correct that people are much more likely to become engaged with and ultimately remember things that seem wrong or counterintuitive at first, trolling at it's best is just a highly effective didactic technique.