What does that even mean? Yes, whatever startup you were going to attempt is going to die... when you take the full time job that turned out to be more attractive than starting it.
It's not like going to work for Comcast, dude, and you know it. I don't get why you're trying to stir this up.
Stirring things is up not the same as having a different opinion on something. Is this now your default operating mode where you will change every disagreement in to a personal attack ? Really, I gave some very simple reasons why I think this is a bad idea, whoever killed the original post apparently has reasons of their own why they think this is a bad idea (I can think of a few).
If you get rejected by YC it simply isn't the end of the world and I think that a 'co-founder wanted' post would have been MUCH more appropriate than the one with the title the way it was presented.
You can disagree with me on that for various reasons but to accuse me of trying to 'stir things up' just because you disagree is just another attempt at an ad-hominem.
I'm guessing the reason the YC company that posted the ad dead'ed it was because of posts like yours that picked up the ad and ran it all the way down the field to the worst possible interpretation of what they were saying. Personally, again, an offer of an exec role at a profitable YC-backed startup is basically the exact polar opposite of an insult, and I don't think that's a quirky way of looking at it.
And, I'm sorry that you don't like the particular ad hominem argument I made, but: it's a critique I'm going to keep making. Why did you write this post? Nobody with a viable startup thinks a YC rejection is the end of the world anyways.
The point is that by making it seem as though being rejected by YC is a valid reason to start looking for a job misses out on the fact that YC is limiting the number of applicants that they will accept for a particular batch.
You could be very good, very viable and succeed with or without YC funding (because, for instance you could get funding elsewhere or because you bootstrap your way in to a success). Without YC spending a lot more time on their rejection emails (and I agree that their current rejection letters are as good as they could be without opening the door to a lot of discussion) you can not know what their reason was, and especially the more viable ones might be hit at a time when they are vulnerable (just after being rejected).
Job postings should be level headed and not single out people that have just been kicked in the nuts at a moment when they're vulnerable by targeting them directly.
That's putting the other party at a significant disadvantage.
