Some topics are clearly taboo on Techmeme.....

Have been fascinated that an article on the Techmeme main board, from Techcrunch, has sat on the board all day without a single comment from a blog. Usually a TechCrunch note on the main board gets piled on top of faster than a stripper in a Rugby dressing room, so clearly there is some form of a taboo going on - we haven't got a clue why even Valleywag won't talk about it, so lets go taboo breaking.....

The topic is that of high profile departures from second tier SocNets:

Employees generally don’t leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And that’s doubly true for executive level employees.

When an exec leaves a startup it isn’t necessarily news. But in the last couple of months we’ve seen two execs leave high profile second tier social networks - one from Piczo, and now one from Bebo.

So there you are - truly taboo-ful stuff, never happened before of course.

Go figure.