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Oh, right, I'm being creepy because Zuckerberg broadcasts his every action to 2 billion people and I happen to follow the news. You should take personal offens

Oh, right, I'm being creepy because Zuckerberg broadcasts his every action to 2 billion people and I happen to follow the news. You should take personal offense, too. This guy affects your everyday life, today, right now. You can be happy with that if you want, but I also have the right to criticize it.

dang 9y ago
Could you please stop posting hot-under-the-collar comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and they're really not what the site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aaron-lebo 9y ago
  dang, I respect you and the site, and I recognize that some of my comments are inflammatory. I delete a lot because I realize that and feel bad. My problem is that there's a lot of content that is very "hot-under-the-collar" thinly veiled hatred and prejudice around here, but it gets upvoted and left alone. I'll try to tone it down, and I'm happy to take a break from commenting for awhile, I just wish HN had a fair standard for this stuff. I don't understand how my response to someone calling me a creep (due to my opinions about a public and political figure) is what gets a response from you. But again, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. Thanks for your work because it's probably a pain.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    > My problem is that there's a lot of content that is very "hot-under-the-collar" thinly veiled hatred and prejudice around here, but it gets upvoted and left alone. Strongly agree with this.
    - dang 9y ago
      That might be something of an illusion. People tend to strongly agree on this until they realize they think it about incompatible comment sets.
  - dang 9y ago
    > but it gets upvoted and left alone We see only some of the comments, since there are far too many for us to read. Because of this quantity, it's impossible to moderate the whole corpus. So you're always going to see examples of people getting away with worse in the neighborhood, just like you see cars speeding on the same roads where cops are pulling others over. It doesn't mean it's ok or that we endorse it, just that we have human-scale limitations. It always feels like the opposite side gets away with it more; everyone always feels that way. Drivers who get pulled over feel it too. It's a cognitive bias that I've posted about a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20cognitive%20bias https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... The way to deal with comments breaking the HN guidelines is to make sure we know about them. You can do that by flagging them or by emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. It's amazing how often, when I see complaints about a comment on HN, the complainer never flagged the comment. It seems to be hard for people not to leap from "I saw X on HN" to "HN says X" to "the mods support X". (By that argument, Larry must agree with all YouTube comments.) The likeliest reason is that we just didn't see it. People don't seem to realize how big a difference comment-flagging (or emailing us) makes. A single user can have a lot of impact just by doing that.
    - aaron-lebo 9y ago
      That's makes sense, thank you for explaining that. I'll be a better citizen going forward.

dang 9y ago

Could you please stop posting hot-under-the-collar comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and they're really not what the site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

aaron-lebo 9y ago
dang, I respect you and the site, and I recognize that some of my comments are inflammatory. I delete a lot because I realize that and feel bad. My problem is that there's a lot of content that is very "hot-under-the-collar" thinly veiled hatred and prejudice around here, but it gets upvoted and left alone. I'll try to tone it down, and I'm happy to take a break from commenting for awhile, I just wish HN had a fair standard for this stuff. I don't understand how my response to someone calling me a creep (due to my opinions about a public and political figure) is what gets a response from you. But again, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. Thanks for your work because it's probably a pain.
- DanBC 9y ago
  > My problem is that there's a lot of content that is very "hot-under-the-collar" thinly veiled hatred and prejudice around here, but it gets upvoted and left alone. Strongly agree with this.
  - dang 9y ago
    That might be something of an illusion. People tend to strongly agree on this until they realize they think it about incompatible comment sets.
- dang 9y ago
  > but it gets upvoted and left alone We see only some of the comments, since there are far too many for us to read. Because of this quantity, it's impossible to moderate the whole corpus. So you're always going to see examples of people getting away with worse in the neighborhood, just like you see cars speeding on the same roads where cops are pulling others over. It doesn't mean it's ok or that we endorse it, just that we have human-scale limitations. It always feels like the opposite side gets away with it more; everyone always feels that way. Drivers who get pulled over feel it too. It's a cognitive bias that I've posted about a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20cognitive%20bias https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... The way to deal with comments breaking the HN guidelines is to make sure we know about them. You can do that by flagging them or by emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. It's amazing how often, when I see complaints about a comment on HN, the complainer never flagged the comment. It seems to be hard for people not to leap from "I saw X on HN" to "HN says X" to "the mods support X". (By that argument, Larry must agree with all YouTube comments.) The likeliest reason is that we just didn't see it. People don't seem to realize how big a difference comment-flagging (or emailing us) makes. A single user can have a lot of impact just by doing that.
  - aaron-lebo 9y ago
    That's makes sense, thank you for explaining that. I'll be a better citizen going forward.