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Unfortunately all of those things are open to anyone's subjective interpretation. And I'll add again that said subjective interpretation has gone off the rails
by kd3 7y ago
Unfortunately all of those things are open to anyone's subjective interpretation. And I'll add again that said subjective interpretation has gone off the rails in recent times.
- dang 7y agoNearly everything is open to subjective interpretation. As a moderator here, it's my job to interpret the site guidelines. We try to do that as fairly and consistently as we can, but at the end of the day if you keep breaking the guidelines the way we interpret them, we're going to have to ban you. If you read back through https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang and https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sctb https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sctb, I think you'll find a fair degree of consistency—nay, monotony—in what we tell users here.
- kd3 7y agoI understand, do what you have to do. But I think that everyone should think about what era we're heading into when "honesty isn't sufficient" anymore on most platforms on the Internet.