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I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke. > I'd rather stick with the Wikimedia Foundation. I don't care. I'm only

by lj3 9y ago

I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke. > I'd rather stick with the Wikimedia Foundation. I don't care. I'm only aware of infogalactic because it's an alternative to wikipedia, which I sought out to begin with because of the very complaints you just made... > "An archived deletion discussion from 2014 states "This article fails Wikipedia:Notability (people), Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and should be deleted." ... etc."

detaro 9y ago
> I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke. Show HNs are for posting your own projects, so of course the parent would assume a close connection from you posting one. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html : Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.
- lj3 9y ago
  Is it? I've been posting here for years (under other names, not just this one) and I didn't know that. I guess I never noticed that people were posting up their own projects and not something they just thought was interesting. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
delhanty 9y ago
You wrote: >I would encourage you to learn a bit more about it first. When I'd already checked "them" out, and decided it wasn't for me. Also, as @detaro points out, a Show HN is clearly documented as for your own work. Furthermore, it turns out that you have multiple HN accounts - that comes across as scammy to me.
- lj3 9y ago
  > Furthermore, it turns out that you have multiple HN accounts - that comes across as scammy to me. None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. I can't imagine why...
  - delhanty 9y ago
    >None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. OK - fair enough on the multiple HN accounts. Your posts do come across as pushing Infogalactic quite strongly though, which is why I looked at your profile for your past submissions, and found the Show HN.

by lj3 9y ago

detaro 9y ago

> I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke. Show HNs are for posting your own projects, so of course the parent would assume a close connection from you posting one. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html : Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.

lj3 9y ago
Is it? I've been posting here for years (under other names, not just this one) and I didn't know that. I guess I never noticed that people were posting up their own projects and not something they just thought was interesting. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

delhanty 9y ago

You wrote: >I would encourage you to learn a bit more about it first. When I'd already checked "them" out, and decided it wasn't for me. Also, as @detaro points out, a Show HN is clearly documented as for your own work. Furthermore, it turns out that you have multiple HN accounts - that comes across as scammy to me.

lj3 9y ago
> Furthermore, it turns out that you have multiple HN accounts - that comes across as scammy to me. None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. I can't imagine why...
- delhanty 9y ago
  >None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. OK - fair enough on the multiple HN accounts. Your posts do come across as pushing Infogalactic quite strongly though, which is why I looked at your profile for your past submissions, and found the Show HN.