Sorry, but it's not ok to look up people based on their employer and drag them into a thread like that. That's a trope of the online callout/shaming culture, and we don't want HN to go that route.
I'm really not sure. If the spirit is still to shame them or demand that they account for themselves, maybe not. If it's to make a more general point about organizations, maybe. If you had just included the titles and not the names or the links, I wouldn't have replied, so I guess the line is thereabouts.
It's true that the guidelines don't spell everything out, partly because that would be impossible, partly because beyond a certain length no one would read them, and partly because if they were written in a more legalistic or formalistic way, people would take them as sort of a bitmask, everything in the inverse of which must be ok. That's definitely not how things work here. We want a spirit of the law, not a letter of the law kind of place. I guess I've been saying this for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606756.
I've reopened your comment for editing so you can modify it.
Edit: just to close the loop on this, the way you modified your comment does actually seem fine to me, so this was a nice test case of probing where the line actually should be. Thanks!
Is this really the place to call out individuals? Maybe it is. I don't know.
But in today's call-out/shaming culture, I think we'd all be better off if we held back the urge to call people out like this whenever we can. The leader of the company has already taken responsibility and he's here replying to people in real time. No matter how we feel about the situation overall, calling out more individuals seems to server absolutely NO purpose.
Maybe I'm wrong, but if I am then I just won't participate in these sorts of discussions any more.
Right now, Triplebyte on a resume doesn't tell me anything very positive.
Why hasn't their VP of Growth or the Product Manager of Growth said anything on the subject?
People should be held to account. Working for a startup, it's easy to figure out who's to blame for these terrible ideas.