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I know this is news.YC, but if it's a good company can we link to it without the affiliation notice? It's understandable - though irritating - that any company with a "(YC 200X Grad)" label gets all its minutiae voted to the top of the page, but let's draw the line at comments and provide ideas for services without the wankery.

Fliggo looks really nice without my knowing anything about how it's funded.

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I'm sure this may come as a shock, but a lot of people are interested in knowing whether or not a company is YC funded, given the domain we're at is ycombinator.com.

I'm sorry if you feel this is "wankery"; I just prefer not to drop naked links.

Naked links? There's certainly context. A particular sort of site was asked for; a link was provided, the front page of which said exactly why the link was being offered.

If it had been something a bit more informative (if you'd mentioned YC along with some other stuff), then you're fleshing out the link, but if the only detail you're mentioning is YC you're not offering much. There are a lot of YCombinator companies I love, and there are a handful that I think are dreadful, and so being told it's a YC company doesn't guarantee me of anything other than that you'll be voted higher.

I'm sorry if the term "wankery" offended you - I use that as a lighthearted jab. Didn't mean to sound cruel when I said that.

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