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parenthesis on Nov 22, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day?

Maybe they're looking for people whose high karma comes from scoring highly on a small number of hyper-intelligent comments.

paulgb on Nov 22, 2008 [–]

I'm guessing so. IIRC, pg has mentioned looking at news.YC contributions, but I haven't seen him mention looking at karma specifically. (Then again, I'm not a YC applicant, so I haven't really looked into it.)

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