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Comment by busterkeaton | Hacker News Reader

Mike you forgot to make a fake name for HN. If you go to http://www.younoodle.com/startups/favilous which belongs to Mr. Doyle and leads to http://www.favilous.com/ which is copyright A Shade of Green 2009. The same copyright as 11kclub. Still wanna say you don't know what it is?

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Full disclosure I am one of the brother's of the guys involved in this project ! This to me now typifies Hacker News and this is very very sad. Hacker News of which I have been a member for a number of years has always been a great place to go where you get good actionable comments and discussion on topics. This thread however is typical of the 'new' Hacker News, a place where users want to snipe at other users and find negative aspects to things submitted. BusterKeaton has gone to the extent of creating a throwaway Hacker News profile to point out disparities in an interesting project that had no ulterior motive - just an idea that stemmed from a book that may also apply to a website. Why pick it apart to try to find something wrong with it ? Why then try to discredit one of the founders with threats about his current employer ? Hacker News was always a place where like minded people could gather to discuss and showcase interesting projects, often for people who are employed outside of these projects and who are trying to better their lives with interesting and thought provoking projects. Hacker News now unfortunately is a place where some of it's users are trying to discredit and prove a point. This is a very sad day and has forever tainted my view of Hacker News and reinforces my view that Hacker News is certainly not the place it once was and albeit there a lot of great users with interesting commentary and interesting projects to showcase there are a lot of individuals who want to prove a point, belittle others and generally snipe.

Where does the 11kclub mention a shade of green?

In the meta copyright tags.

Well this is all suddenly extremely dodgy, with the submitter lying about who he is, and various other favilous workers commenting as well with no disclosure.

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This is all getting very personal. We wanted to create a fun project to see if people would join something they knew nothing about but obviously we had to lie a bit to ensure that we didn't give the game away. Ever read the book Join Me by Danny Wallace? We wanted to see if people would join a website in the same manner. We've got an idea for what we want the club to be but we wanted to keep it under wraps to keep it fun.

We've had lots of users join. It's been a really great day. I guess you've 'caught us' ) No harm done I hope.

Okay, I understand where you are coming from. But why not submit it and then leave it. The lying makes it seems to much worse than it potentially is.

Thanks - really appreciate it. Sorry again.

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