Comment by quinndiggity | Hacker News Reader

Comment by quinndiggity | Hacker News Reader

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Going off how any comment questioning their poor behaviour is being downvoted and even intentionally hiding some comments now, this being a ycombinator alumni project, and any meaningful discussion about the project itself being shut down in preference of their own developers' posting meaningless "i luv how perfect you made it and it beats everything"... Yeah, this project has gross all over it now, and really should not be trusted for something as crucial as secret management.

You could have chosen to make a product that could stand on its own two feet.

You could have chosen to respond to criticism over your lack of marketing experience and mistaken choice to misrepresent your competition instead of, you know, compete with them.

You could have learned from this experience, instead of trying to trudge ahead.

Please reread what moderator Dang said to you 3 hours ago.

If ycombinator and their mods are more concerned with the promotion of one of their own investments, over discussion of its merits and feedback from the people who _would_ be the ones adopting and promoting it in their own companies if it indeed lived up to its own marketing, then I invite a ban for trying to keep hackernews honest and driven by community discussion, over a place for them to advertise, self promote, pat themselves on the back, and pad their wallets.

Baiting the moderators is in poor taste and is not going to change our behavior. The way we moderate HN when YC or YC startups are involved has been stable for many years: we moderate less in such cases. You'll find many statements of this going back a long time here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Less, however, does not mean zero. You posted 15 aggressive comments in this thread; that's extreme. You've crossed well into trolling, and even descended into personal attack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724190). I don't know where this grudge is coming from, but it's time to stop.

Plenty of other commenters have been raising similar concerns (e.g. about hosted secrets); that's obviously fine. The difference is that they're doing it in a decent and non-vindictive way, as the site guidelines require.

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