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I wrote that comment using a new account to avoid being outed at work. To be very clear: your accusation is false, there was never any special parentheses, and

I wrote that comment using a new account to avoid being outed at work. To be very clear: your accusation is false, there was never any special parentheses, and I invite an admin to confirm that if they can.

krapp 8y ago
>To be very clear: your accusation is false, there was never any special parentheses, and I invite an admin to confirm that if they can. There were, I saw them, other people saw them, they were copied into eli_gottlieb's comment. His comment is flagged now, but it's still visible to some users. Whether an admin can or does confirm it is irrelevant. You made a green account, and you screwed up with some 4chan nonsense. Just reroll and don't do it again.
- hejdnrndk 8y ago
  I guess a troll is going to troll, but the idea that some coded message was in my comment is just insane. I unequivocally deny any use of “triple parens”. Full stop.
  - everybodyknows 8y ago
    Could an admin with access to edit history please straighten this out?
    - dang 8y ago
      Alright, I checked the logs. There were never any parentheses in that comment. kjbfojbejib made two edits, but only to add to the text. Both additions were to the part about other businesses in the same neighborhoods, i.e. they were not part of the disputed text.
- dang 8y ago
  I'm sure you wrote this in good faith, but there weren't parens in the original comment. They only appeared in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470714. The odd thing is that eli_gottlieb was making an unrelated point at the time (a strange and almost endearingly paranoid one, but that's another story). This looks like a case of the internet snark trope where people use quotation marks to put nasty words in others' mouths, leading to misunderstanding and unfairness. That's why we've long asked users not to do that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20quotation%20marks%20quoting%20not https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It has never been in the official guidelines but it's been a bit of case law on this site for a long time.

krapp 8y ago

>To be very clear: your accusation is false, there was never any special parentheses, and I invite an admin to confirm that if they can. There were, I saw them, other people saw them, they were copied into eli_gottlieb's comment. His comment is flagged now, but it's still visible to some users. Whether an admin can or does confirm it is irrelevant. You made a green account, and you screwed up with some 4chan nonsense. Just reroll and don't do it again.

hejdnrndk 8y ago
I guess a troll is going to troll, but the idea that some coded message was in my comment is just insane. I unequivocally deny any use of “triple parens”. Full stop.
- everybodyknows 8y ago
  Could an admin with access to edit history please straighten this out?
  - dang 8y ago
    Alright, I checked the logs. There were never any parentheses in that comment. kjbfojbejib made two edits, but only to add to the text. Both additions were to the part about other businesses in the same neighborhoods, i.e. they were not part of the disputed text.
dang 8y ago
I'm sure you wrote this in good faith, but there weren't parens in the original comment. They only appeared in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470714. The odd thing is that eli_gottlieb was making an unrelated point at the time (a strange and almost endearingly paranoid one, but that's another story). This looks like a case of the internet snark trope where people use quotation marks to put nasty words in others' mouths, leading to misunderstanding and unfairness. That's why we've long asked users not to do that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20quotation%20marks%20quoting%20not https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It has never been in the official guidelines but it's been a bit of case law on this site for a long time.