Value of comments in regards to applying for YC?
cperciva: In the past, PG has talked about comments here from the perspective of the YC crew"recognizing names".  Based on this and my past experience with selection processes, I imagine comments here will influence how carefully an application is reviewed, but not necessarily the outcome of that review -- rather like any resume which says "Linus Torvalds" at the top will be looked at closely, but Linus would nevertheless probably not be offered a job as a web designer (if, for some odd reason, he ever applied for one).Should I be spending more time commenting for my preparation to apply to yc?Please don't.  There is an influx of new people posting here every 6 months, and it does nothing to improve the level of discourse.  I rather doubt that it helps the YC applicant much either, since (a) the only reputation which you have time to develop between now and the YC deadline is a bad one, and (b) people who are writing comments just for the sake of writing comments rarely end up saying anything interesting anyway.