As I said it was just my two cents and here http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23904 is what I had seen there and was referring to. Though, I myself was not very active on HS and never visited after this. There was one more incident that I couldn't find in my browser history.
It's not sth serious but I was very disturbed to see how one guy had raised a valid concern and almost everyone jumped on him with logic like "this is from a star personality", "it was not posted by someone from the company" and "one person didn't find it relevant, others did". The last one was very odd and even more add was the related founder's reaction. The guy (who had originally raised the question) had just mentioned and pointed out the similarity and the he(founder) was like http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23917.
And worst of all, people found it irrelevant when someone wanted to share a simple nice feedback(http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23765); even forum owner(pd) frowned upon it(well, he was the firs one). And the entire community showed its double standard when it came to someone more successful, known on forum. Sadly the guy(who had first raised the concern) didn't post anything after that and neither the guy whose post was frowned upon.
Maybe rightly so, because I guess it was just me and that guy who found it odd or maybe some more people. This doesn't happen on HN. Here are too far many people for one post's fate to be decided by a small circle.
Here, if you deserve it, you get it!
@prateekdayal: Please understand that I didn't mean any offence if you took any. I had the almost the same questions and if you check my ID there(same as HN) I hardly participated, I was just a lurker but still I found it odd and not well handled. Maybe HS needs to mature and more members with down-voting power needs to be there, which shall certainly take time. 'People known to forum owner' was a remark marked as a 'maybe' and that's what it was. Yes, it did sound like an allegation of some sort(apologies, if it did) but then again it was based upon the behaviour I observed.
Funny thing is that people simply go out and post their un-informed opinions and write off the work that people (moderators in this case) have been doing for years to keep HSI healthy. For example, I have never even met Webengage founder and he is certainly not a friend and hence getting upvoted. Friend of the community and getting upvoted? Maybe.
> Sadly the guy(who had first raised the concern) didn't post anything after that and neither the guy whose post was frowned upon.
The guy who was 'jumped on' is still active and commenting on HSI. So is the guy that posted the second thread.
In the end, please raise your concerns but don't discourage people from visiting HSI or 'mixing' without getting your facts right. Thanks
Disagreeing with someone is not the same as jumping on him! Did you find any of the replies personally insulting the person who raised the concerns? Or making fun of him or writing him off? If you did, that is precisely what the down vote is for. You will notice that the person raising the point was not downvoted into oblivion.
If it is nothing serious, please don't tell people to not go and participate in the board.
Any examples of this behavior? Who is currently ruling HSI? I would be very interested in hearing more on this.