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shawn 8y ago
Yes, a certain mod occasionally vouches comments I make. You can tell this is true because the comment is marked [flagged] immediately. If a comment is flagged by the community, it becomes [flagged][dead], not merely [flagged]. The consistent theme here is to do whatever it takes to make me seem unreasonable or mistaken. In this case, I say “none of my comments are able to be resurrected from the dead,” and presto! Almost instantly, that same comment is ressurected. Whereas my comments about bcrypt or tech related matters stay firmly dead. And before my account was (apparently) marked unvouchable, a mod manually killed a substantive comment I made that happened to be vouched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564850 I don’t mind though. The hard part is the loneliness. I genuinely miss talking with you guys and discussing the news of the day. But again, I chose this life as public protest. This is my last comment for the next three hours, as I am limited to two comments every three. But I wish all the HN readers a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
nkurz 8y ago
I vouched for it, and it came alive for a bit, although not immediately. I'm not sure if this was because it required multiple vouches to revivify, or whether there was manual intervention by administrators. It's dead again now, apparently by user flagging. I vouched for it not because I agree with it, but because I thought it was non-offensive, and because I thought that it was better for this dispute to occasionally be in the light rather than always in the shadow-text of the show-dead. As far as what's actually happening, I confess I don't understand. Shawn comes across as bright, polite, and occasionally oblivious to social norms. Which is to say, he doesn't seem that far out of place here. Dan has responded to him many times, including this meta-response linking to many other responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702. I also confess that part of the reason I vouched for this comment was that it struck me as a real-life example of the loudly-humming child in the backseat, with the hands-over-ears seatmate writhing next to him. I'm not quite sure which is Dan, and which is Shawn, but either way, Merry Christmas to both of you, and best of luck in your respective quixotic quests.

This post is alive

Yes, a certain mod occasionally vouches comments I make. You can tell this is true because the comment is marked [flagged] immediately. If a comment is flagged by the community, it becomes [flagged][dead], not merely [flagged]. The consistent theme here is to do whatever it takes to make me seem unreasonable or mistaken. In this case, I say “none of my comments are able to be resurrected from the dead,” and presto! Almost instantly, that same comment is ressurected. Whereas my comments about bcrypt or tech related matters stay firmly dead. And before my account was (apparently) marked unvouchable, a mod manually killed a substantive comment I made that happened to be vouched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564850 I don’t mind though. The hard part is the loneliness. I genuinely miss talking with you guys and discussing the news of the day. But again, I chose this life as public protest. This is my last comment for the next three hours, as I am limited to two comments every three. But I wish all the HN readers a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

nkurz 8y ago

I vouched for it, and it came alive for a bit, although not immediately. I'm not sure if this was because it required multiple vouches to revivify, or whether there was manual intervention by administrators. It's dead again now, apparently by user flagging. I vouched for it not because I agree with it, but because I thought it was non-offensive, and because I thought that it was better for this dispute to occasionally be in the light rather than always in the shadow-text of the show-dead. As far as what's actually happening, I confess I don't understand. Shawn comes across as bright, polite, and occasionally oblivious to social norms. Which is to say, he doesn't seem that far out of place here. Dan has responded to him many times, including this meta-response linking to many other responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454702. I also confess that part of the reason I vouched for this comment was that it struck me as a real-life example of the loudly-humming child in the backseat, with the hands-over-ears seatmate writhing next to him. I'm not quite sure which is Dan, and which is Shawn, but either way, Merry Christmas to both of you, and best of luck in your respective quixotic quests.