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I think you may have replied to the wrong comment friend :)

paul7986 7y ago
Hmmm i was following your question about who makes the rules up. I was shocked to hear and be told I can no longer talk negatively about Google on Hacker News and provide my reason why if asked.
- kbenson 7y ago
  > I was shocked to hear and be told I can no longer talk negatively about Google on Hacker News and provide my reason why if asked. Because it's baiting people into allowing you to grind your axe? I just looked up what you are referring to, and while like the mods I agree there's likely something to your story, that doesn't mean it needs to be injected into every conversation, nor that you can be excused for saying "they are pigs" with regard to Google. The job of the mods is to provide a civil place for discourse that people enjoy and find benefit in participating in. If they think you repeatedly bringing up something that you've already expressed on multiple occasions is impeding those goals, it's their job to take action. The fact that you've started the same behavior over their actions to correct your prior behavior (note how the person you replied to thought you accidentally replied to the wrong person?) is evidence that you didn't understand what they tried to express initially, or possibly don't care. The solution to this is simple, stay on topic, or at least make sure your tangents have a reason. A discussion about Google wrongdoing, or poor experiences, or even weird interview problems would be a good place to bring out your Google grievances. A discussion about who the moderators are and how they come to consensus for purely educational reasons is not an entirely appropriate forum to air your grievances about past moderator decisions, as it's a large shift in tone, and that's ignoring its tendency to derail any conversation it happens in. If your message has merit, it will be better received when it's in the right context. In the wrong context, it's likely to be ignored, and possibly even negatively received, as you've seen.

Hmmm i was following your question about who makes the rules up. I was shocked to hear and be told I can no longer talk negatively about Google on Hacker News and provide my reason why if asked.

kbenson 7y ago
> I was shocked to hear and be told I can no longer talk negatively about Google on Hacker News and provide my reason why if asked. Because it's baiting people into allowing you to grind your axe? I just looked up what you are referring to, and while like the mods I agree there's likely something to your story, that doesn't mean it needs to be injected into every conversation, nor that you can be excused for saying "they are pigs" with regard to Google. The job of the mods is to provide a civil place for discourse that people enjoy and find benefit in participating in. If they think you repeatedly bringing up something that you've already expressed on multiple occasions is impeding those goals, it's their job to take action. The fact that you've started the same behavior over their actions to correct your prior behavior (note how the person you replied to thought you accidentally replied to the wrong person?) is evidence that you didn't understand what they tried to express initially, or possibly don't care. The solution to this is simple, stay on topic, or at least make sure your tangents have a reason. A discussion about Google wrongdoing, or poor experiences, or even weird interview problems would be a good place to bring out your Google grievances. A discussion about who the moderators are and how they come to consensus for purely educational reasons is not an entirely appropriate forum to air your grievances about past moderator decisions, as it's a large shift in tone, and that's ignoring its tendency to derail any conversation it happens in. If your message has merit, it will be better received when it's in the right context. In the wrong context, it's likely to be ignored, and possibly even negatively received, as you've seen.