the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold - eviltoast
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    2 months ago

    he has many responsibilities:

    • sometimes he disagrees with an article title that’s entirely accurate and people aren’t buying his assertion that it’s clickbait, so he adds a question mark to it to try to make the article look less credible
    • tone policing
    • ignoring blatant flagging abuse
    • adding sites and posters on YC’s shitlist to the autodead filter
    • his bonuses are almost definitely predicated on how many of Garry Tan’s many fash friends feel comfortable posting on the orange site