alt Hacker NewsI see comments like this all the time on HN, including between community members. Why are you showing up now? Altman may be former YC and friends with Paul Graham, but he’s nevertheless a public figure and does plenty to deserve ridicule.
Are we allowed, for example, to call Trump an insecure man with orange skin and tiny hands? Is that a violation of our allowed speech?
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> I see comments like this all the time on HN, including between community members
That's bad, and I'd like to see links to those.
> Why are you showing up now?
If you mean why do I respond to post A but not B, the answer is usually that I saw A but didn't see B. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at [email protected] (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
> Are we allowed, for example, to call Trump an insecure man with orange skin and tiny hands?
That's certainly a cliché, and it's hard to see how repetition of tropes fits with the intellectual curiosity that we're optimizing for (or rather, trying to! - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). As I've said in the past, curiosity withers under repetition and fries under indignation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
I think, though, that the issue with a political cliché is rather different than posting that someone "doesn't look human".
Altman is also on Paul Graham's legendary founders list. I hope that clears up a thing or two.