Post Claims Hacker News is Fixed

... and the Greys killed Kennedy because under his presidency mankind would finally unite and get to the stars. The Greys had to stop this at all costs - they wanted to trap mankind on Earth.

This drivel was posted here a while ago and, oddly enough, it ended up being killed. I have a radical theory as to why: it's off topic.

Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere, or be prepared to offer proof. Preferably while not wearing your tinfoil hat.

Diverting investors' capital from the startup they picked into another startup providing B2B services would be a legitimate concern. But is this actually happening enough to even move the needle for YC? Their past or most likely successes off the top of my head have been Reddit, Dropbox, and the AirBnB spammers, all of which are primarily B2C and don't have other YC startups as major clients. I also wouldn't expect any viable startup to live or die by their prominence on HN; this audience is still small and mostly frugal, more likely than anyone else to conclude (sometimes falsely) "I don't need to pay for that, I can build it myself". This isn't very convincing even before the 20 IQ point penalty for encoding a page of text as a 72 KB image.

Edit: there's a longer greatest-hits list at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator, and none of those look like major money sinks for other YC startups either.

I guess my first question is where is the proof? This looks like utter bullshit, but I would be much more interested in it if there were sources to serious compiled raw data that proved this in any form.

Don't listen to claims and made up facts.

Much of this (the use of scores of adjacent stories to suggest anomalies) can be explained by the karma system. It seems like the author doesn't realize that points are weighted by the user's karma.

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Haha whos says that google isn't doing this either?