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Article reads like being from a crumpy snarky old age dev who lives in his XML-land filter bubble of the 1990s. Go back to XMLRPC and SOAP please. This site is

by frik 9y ago

Article reads like being from a crumpy snarky old age dev who lives in his XML-land filter bubble of the 1990s. Go back to XMLRPC and SOAP please. This site is getting more of these corporate old farts lately that don't want to adjust at all. I wish the time back when this site was about startup news, VCs, and new exiting things and not about whining and boring stuff.

hjjiehebebe 9y ago
No need for the ad hom.
sctb 9y ago
We've asked you many times to please comment civilly and substantively, and yet you've continued to repeatedly violate the guidelines, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start following the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- frik 9y ago
  Okay sorry, yes this comment is over the top, but it reflects my feeling lately on HN. I tried several times, but it seems constructive criticism or criticism isn't wanted. Proposing changing the voting system to up voting only, and create a report button. The downvoting makes a lot of bad things possible. Several people sent me mails recently, responding that they fear they would get banned if they write as open and free as I do, and free speech isn't a thing on HN. Well, unfortunately it seems they were right. And if you verify all the HN news that got moderated/hidden that don't suite your world view, it is appalling. (I don't know if it just the view of two moderators (dang, sctb, maybe a third) or of more people behind.) In a newspaper I read recently that HN forum is a kind experimental model for Democracy 2.0, and featured as negative example were unpleasant comments get hell banned. Sounds more like communism of the 1970s, than what our country "is" and "needs" as model. Anyway, I would like to see HN as news site for startups, VCs and SV. Not boring things from corporate IT and PR for them. What's the goal of HN? Cater all, or cater the startups and VCs and Ycombinator? Hint: there is already Reddit, for the rest. Please focus on the first, and move the offtopic stuff to a new "page two".
- frik 9y ago
  You shadow banned my account? In case you, a mod, can read this: Repeatedly? I was questioning if certain accounts are corporate PR drones and downvoting bots, yes. (At least two companies employ very visible a bunch of accounts, and use them to flag/votedown articles and add troll comments to get articles hidden, while they publish "good news" in the very same moment. It's visible on the web, you are in partnership with those companies, and one can guess YC profits from the partnership). But beside that not so much. Unfortunately, two admins never found any evidence, they said, and just said shut up or we ban you. Yeah free speech isn't something on HN. News get marked as hidden every single day, that have many comments and/or high votes, and the two mods never found any evidence and always said "it's the users faults, they flagged it", yeah right, not.

by frik 9y ago

hjjiehebebe 9y ago

No need for the ad hom.

sctb 9y ago

We've asked you many times to please comment civilly and substantively, and yet you've continued to repeatedly violate the guidelines, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start following the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

frik 9y ago
Okay sorry, yes this comment is over the top, but it reflects my feeling lately on HN. I tried several times, but it seems constructive criticism or criticism isn't wanted. Proposing changing the voting system to up voting only, and create a report button. The downvoting makes a lot of bad things possible. Several people sent me mails recently, responding that they fear they would get banned if they write as open and free as I do, and free speech isn't a thing on HN. Well, unfortunately it seems they were right. And if you verify all the HN news that got moderated/hidden that don't suite your world view, it is appalling. (I don't know if it just the view of two moderators (dang, sctb, maybe a third) or of more people behind.) In a newspaper I read recently that HN forum is a kind experimental model for Democracy 2.0, and featured as negative example were unpleasant comments get hell banned. Sounds more like communism of the 1970s, than what our country "is" and "needs" as model. Anyway, I would like to see HN as news site for startups, VCs and SV. Not boring things from corporate IT and PR for them. What's the goal of HN? Cater all, or cater the startups and VCs and Ycombinator? Hint: there is already Reddit, for the rest. Please focus on the first, and move the offtopic stuff to a new "page two".
frik 9y ago
You shadow banned my account? In case you, a mod, can read this: Repeatedly? I was questioning if certain accounts are corporate PR drones and downvoting bots, yes. (At least two companies employ very visible a bunch of accounts, and use them to flag/votedown articles and add troll comments to get articles hidden, while they publish "good news" in the very same moment. It's visible on the web, you are in partnership with those companies, and one can guess YC profits from the partnership). But beside that not so much. Unfortunately, two admins never found any evidence, they said, and just said shut up or we ban you. Yeah free speech isn't something on HN. News get marked as hidden every single day, that have many comments and/or high votes, and the two mods never found any evidence and always said "it's the users faults, they flagged it", yeah right, not.