Ask HN: What happened to the Gradberry thread?

HN mods don't kill stories because they're about YC companies. On the contrary, when bad stories about YC startups appear, we either don't penalize them at all, or at least not as much as we otherwise would. It's literally the first thing PG emphasized when showing me how he moderated HN.

People are understandably suspicious about this, and we don't expect suspicion to go away just because we say so. But this way we can answer in good conscience.

As the person who posted the Gradberry thread, I don't think it was buried or otherwise penalized by HN moderators. I wouldn't be surprised if a few people flagged it, but shrug, stuff happens.

See http://hnrankings.info/9332418/ ; there's only one big drop there, and it occurred in the morning when people would start posting a lot of other stories that would push it down. And even then, it stayed on the front page for many hours; a flagged or moderated story would drop off much faster.

Not everything is a conspiracy; assume good faith.

On the other hand, I'm curious why someone edited the title of the thread. When I originally posted it, I wrote "Gradberry (YC W15)" in the title, but someone edited that out. Since this wasn't a link to an article, there was no original title to match there. What gives?

It's still alive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332418