i agree with you that they may had any other idea and be determined about it, but if the idea wasn't what people needed it wouldn't have the enormous success it had.
bad analogy i'd say. they may lose some shots but their team mates may score better that day.
At the end of the day, their target is to win the game so it doesn't matter who lost any number of the shots. If they lost the game then the team and all fans are emotionally affected.
The players will get paid at the end of the day. If a startup fails nobody cares and you are certainly not gonna get paid.
so, most of the new users voted up for this story, and the older users contributed the comments in the story...this is interesting about the "quality" of the users, so maybe the weighting that will affect story order, should take in mind user contribution(karma) in comments...
So, maybe comments's karma should be kept as a different record. And there should be comments weighting too, because we wouldn't want new users to game the system with each other and thus game again the weighting system for the story order.
"Quality" could be expressed as "experience" because obviously people adapted in the climate of YC.news who behave the expected way, as you say you expect to happen and thus the problem correct it self. But expecting the situation to correct it self may not be the right way.
Expected way though shouldn't be mean is the correct way, because the community would remain closed instead of being open.
So, because of the problems that arise with a weighting system making it probably not democratic, the most correct way for weighting would be to happen in manual down voting, which should appear only for "experienced users".
Weighting should happen there, so for example if you have 1 experienced user up voting and another one down voting, their vote is eliminated, which positive/negative difference could be used in two ways:
1. added in the current points of the story
2. or a non-linear scale be used that would determine the quality of the story.
"those people that read it for getting that impression"
it's the attitude towards reading something that matters.
nobody will have the same attitude towards reading this, especially if they are among the caged lions!
it's obvious and expected that most people will deny their condition if they dont know anything else. if you are born in a cage how do you know how is it on the outside? hell, probably you wont even like it and if attempted to escape return back frigihtenned.
the only way to avoid this is to be precise in what you write, so not to leave any excuse for misintrepreation.
I am totally certain there are more bright programmers sitting in the cage, than a lot of the "startup founders" out there.
by changing the order of the words from the title, and creating a new phrase to remind you that you should do a startup because you may regret of not doing so.
this also shows that the startup world is so fluid as much a title can be. everything has a different intepretation by different people.
a startup is a personal experience and the reasons for someone who choses not to pursue a startup should not be the excuse or affect anyone's choice to make their attempt.
