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Sorry, I don't see how this acocunt violated the guidelines, or how the username is trollish. Can you clarify?
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Sorry, I don't see how this acocunt violated the guidelines, or how the username is trollish. Can you clarify?
- timthelion 9y agoI think that dang was simply reacting to "Any user name with the word Kek in it is a troll." Kek is a word used almost solely by extreme right, sexist, racist trolls (in that order, more likely to be extremely sexist than racist). http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cult-of-kek http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cult-of-kek
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- dang 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044224 We eventually ban accounts that ignore our requests to follow the site guidelines. Inflammatory usernames catalyze that.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoGotcha. For the record, "kek" is a term that has been appropriated by trolls, but is not in and of itself a troll term. In the future, you should think twice about banning someone on that merit. The links you gave are better evidence, though, thanks!
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThe links are a little snarky, not terribly helpful, but not especially out there. If you're banning that then banning those making racist remarks like up-thread seems right. Personally I wouldn't ban either.
- timthelion 9y agodang, there is no way to tell who the mods are. So those "requests" to change behavior aren't exactly clear that they are from the mods. And non-mods have certainly asked me to change my behavior in the past, and sometimes I have taken their advice and sometimes I have decided not to.
- dang 9y agoIt's true, yet I don't feel we should change that, e.g. by putting "mod" beside our names. There's a downside to that sort of thing too, and for HN, I think it's the greater downside. I'd rather trust the community to figure things out, which it does extraordinarily well.