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Exactly why I thought HN might find this story interesting, the 'we did it reddit!' factor is funny in light of the many times they've gotten things horribly wr

Exactly why I thought HN might find this story interesting, the 'we did it reddit!' factor is funny in light of the many times they've gotten things horribly wrong -- the Boston marathon bombing comes to mind. Kind of wish it hadn't been flagged and disappeared from the front page so quickly.

threepipeproblm 10y ago
Improperly marking a similar post this morning as a "dupe" didn't work -- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm -- so people who don't want to hear this seem to have "flagged" it as off topic? Meanwhile, some recent HN topics that were not flagged as off topic include: * The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult * Affliction and Salvation: Love Was a Learned Art for Iris Murdoch * My Motherland: Finding–and writing–the worlds where only I had been * Plaster Perspectives on “Magical Gems”: Rethinking the Meaning of “Magic” in Cornell’s Dactyliotheca * I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa * The Real Lolita So two points -- (a) I am not a Republican; and (b) This seems deeply broken at best. Can anyone convince me it isn't a form of censorship? I'm not too familiar with HN's moderation setup.
- socialist_coder 10y ago
  HN loves the establishment. They are getting rich, why would they want to shake things up?
- threepipeproblm 10y ago
  Ah the first person to downvote this has no actual defense of it... I was legitimately asking, open to me having misinterpreted this but I'd like know how
- douche 10y ago
  Possibly relevant: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolling-20160506-snap-htmlstory.html http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolli...
- joemi 10y ago
  I'm not one of the people to flag or downvote this, but all the post shows is that he wanted to keep some email addresses private. I'm not sure why people think this is a smoking gun? I get that people hate HRC, but how is a desire to tokenize email addresses noteworthy? Edit: Also, the title doesn't fit the post.
  - threepipeproblm 10y ago
    Maybe because (a) he didn't use the language of tokenization, he asked how to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails", and (b)He just plead the 5th on questions involving whether or not he complied with the investigation legally, which people normally do to avoid incriminating themselves. At least that's how I understand the situation.
    - joemi 10y ago
      > he didn't use the language of tokenization If by that you mean he didn't say "tokenization" specifically, sure. But "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails" sounds kind of like tokenization, doesn't it? Sounds to me like how I might ask about it if I don't know the exact words for it. All I know for certain is that I sure hope nothing important ever rests on the exact phrasing of something I've written on reddit.
sctb 10y ago
OK, we'll try overriding some of the user flags and see how the discussion goes. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534132 and marked it off-topic.
- whamlastxmas 10y ago
  Huge props to you for this. I think this is relevant news for HackerNews, but I suspect people flag it due to other reasons.

threepipeproblm 10y ago

Improperly marking a similar post this morning as a "dupe" didn't work -- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm -- so people who don't want to hear this seem to have "flagged" it as off topic? Meanwhile, some recent HN topics that were not flagged as off topic include: * The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult * Affliction and Salvation: Love Was a Learned Art for Iris Murdoch * My Motherland: Finding–and writing–the worlds where only I had been * Plaster Perspectives on “Magical Gems”: Rethinking the Meaning of “Magic” in Cornell’s Dactyliotheca * I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa * The Real Lolita So two points -- (a) I am not a Republican; and (b) This seems deeply broken at best. Can anyone convince me it isn't a form of censorship? I'm not too familiar with HN's moderation setup.

socialist_coder 10y ago
HN loves the establishment. They are getting rich, why would they want to shake things up?
threepipeproblm 10y ago
Ah the first person to downvote this has no actual defense of it... I was legitimately asking, open to me having misinterpreted this but I'd like know how
douche 10y ago
Possibly relevant: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolling-20160506-snap-htmlstory.html http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolli...
joemi 10y ago
I'm not one of the people to flag or downvote this, but all the post shows is that he wanted to keep some email addresses private. I'm not sure why people think this is a smoking gun? I get that people hate HRC, but how is a desire to tokenize email addresses noteworthy? Edit: Also, the title doesn't fit the post.
- threepipeproblm 10y ago
  Maybe because (a) he didn't use the language of tokenization, he asked how to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails", and (b)He just plead the 5th on questions involving whether or not he complied with the investigation legally, which people normally do to avoid incriminating themselves. At least that's how I understand the situation.
  - joemi 10y ago
    > he didn't use the language of tokenization If by that you mean he didn't say "tokenization" specifically, sure. But "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails" sounds kind of like tokenization, doesn't it? Sounds to me like how I might ask about it if I don't know the exact words for it. All I know for certain is that I sure hope nothing important ever rests on the exact phrasing of something I've written on reddit.

sctb 10y ago

OK, we'll try overriding some of the user flags and see how the discussion goes. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534132 and marked it off-topic.

whamlastxmas 10y ago
Huge props to you for this. I think this is relevant news for HackerNews, but I suspect people flag it due to other reasons.