Now hold on a moment...<p>I&#x27;ve had run-ins with &quot;high profile&quot; people here on HN, as well as a tiff with Ycombinator. Turns out, the high profiles can be disgusting, nasty, brutish, and rude: the same way you gain status in the &#x27;Valley. How do you defend against it? Well, you can&#x27;t here. Your account is shit-canned, hellbanned, modded to death, or openly insulted and berated.<p>So yes, users take to other channels. That&#x27;s what I did when I hacked the Thalmic Myo. Didn&#x27;t know it was a YC venture. Company was crippling hardware for getting more money (surprise!). Posts here went poof. Fortunately Hackaday took it and ran with it. Took around 5 hours for Thalmic to make a statement and change their whole viewpoint, for that I am glad.<p>But no user Ms, don&#x27;t expect much changes to be made here with regards to bad policy and bad discussion; for they will turn around and do the opposite they recommended just days prior.