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To be fair, the author of the blog did not post this to HN. But yeah really hate seeing this kind of stuff here.
by whatok 10y ago
To be fair, the author of the blog did not post this to HN. But yeah really hate seeing this kind of stuff here.
- throw_away1 10y agoNow hold on a moment... I've had run-ins with "high profile" people here on HN, as well as a tiff with Ycombinator. Turns out, the high profiles can be disgusting, nasty, brutish, and rude: the same way you gain status in the 'Valley. How do you defend against it? Well, you can't here. Your account is shit-canned, hellbanned, modded to death, or openly insulted and berated. So yes, users take to other channels. That's what I did when I hacked the Thalmic Myo. Didn't know it was a YC venture. Company was crippling hardware for getting more money (surprise!). Posts here went poof. Fortunately Hackaday took it and ran with it. Took around 5 hours for Thalmic to make a statement and change their whole viewpoint, for that I am glad. But no user Ms, don't expect much changes to be made here with regards to bad policy and bad discussion; for they will turn around and do the opposite they recommended just days prior.