>> the vast majority of us have been handing this data out to SaaS providers of all sizes and shapes for decades now, for free
This is truly disappointing to hear on HN.
This is truly disappointing to hear on HN.
The VC around here loses more than we do if HN ceases to be a useful barometer.
Where was that? I'd like to see a link, because this doesn't sound right to me. I was running HN 10 years ago, and it has never been a practice to ban people for "comments about PG".
We ban accounts that repeatedly break the site guidelines, including with personal attacks, but that is not a question of who the person is—it's a question of how badly they've broken the rules.
Also, if the person is connected to YC, that would make us a little less likely to ban them, by the principle described here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....