I did not realize Yc was a democracy.

There is one...check out buildv1.com. It's still in it's infancy, but the mission is in line with the theme of this thread.

want a job?

You don't get as much SEO juice by using social news services. There is a little element in the HTML markup of some social news sites that essentially tells search engines to ignore the link. This means you don't get credit for that link back to your domain. In addition, having your own blog can increase the number of times search engines visit the rest of your site...again, SEO 101.