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I wonder why this was marked dead. tiedustelulaki 14 minutes ago [dead] [-] I'm currently launching https://tiedustelulaki.com/ On this website I inten
by drallison 8y ago
I wonder why this was marked dead.
tiedustelulaki 14 minutes ago [dead] [-]
I'm currently launching https://tiedustelulaki.com/
On this website I intend to collect as much information
as possible about the politicians who supported this
legislation, I hope to expose every last part of their
private lives. Nothing will be off limits.
I'm starting out with a total of 20000 euro budget in
cryptocurrency that I intend to use to fund some sort
of a bounty program in order to collect personal
information on politicians who voted for this legislation.
While the response might be considered over-the-top, it also reflects a level of concern and anger which HN readers may find helpful in understanding.
- ryanlol 8y agoNew account with no post history posting a link gets automatically marked as dead. When this happens you can select the post and click on [vouch] if you think it's not spammy. Is it really over-the-top? This seems like it could be a rather effective way for individuals to make a difference.
- deogeo 8y ago> over-the-top Looks like tit-for-tat to me.
- dang 8y agoThe comment was killed by a software filter that is based on past activity by trolls and applies to brand new accounts. It has since been unkilled by users vouching for it, which is the intended use of vouching. In the future, can you please not post comments like this? They always attract attention because meta is the crack of internet forums, but they take discussion off topic, and the discussion they do lead to is usually just a sugar high rather than interesting. Here are two better things to do in such cases: (1) vouch for the comment (click on its timestamp to go its page, then click 'vouch' at the top—this requires karma > 30); (2) email us. Then we can unkill the comment and mark the account legit so it won't happen again.
- java-man 8y agocould you please explain what's a meta?
- gotocake 8y agoA discussion about the discussion.
- dang 8y agoRight, or the voting. Or more generally, HN talking about HN on HN.
- gotocake 8y agoSmart rule, that kind of thing is a bottomless pit second only to chained puns.
- dang 8y agoIt really is crack though. Or sometimes I call it evil catnip.
- gotocake 8y agoI’ve become convinced that anything which makes us experience strong feelings has the potential to be compelling. Add to that the difficulty many of us have with letting things go, and you have a recipe for intellectual/emotional “crack” as you say, in the online world. Offline we tend to pursue extreme feelings in ways that don’t erode our relationships with others, or give us a bad reputation, but online those controls tend to fall away. It’s a tough problem that seems like it requires commensurate energy (mods) to control.