It's disturbing to see a comment prefixed with a concern about downvotes, which suggests a gropthink environment. This is a hackers community. Please speak up without fear of lost karma or reprimand from the local celebrities.
Rightly or not I sometimes feel that dissenting opinions, especially against popular YC companies, are met with contempt. I wouldn't go as far as "groupthink" but I would postulate that an inordinate amount of people that read HN are very supportive of YC companies and dislike when flaws are pointed out about them.
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