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I agree except your 3rd paragraph, because I dont think that would have the intended result. It breaks the findamental concept. I read your comment as agreeing
by jakeogh 6y ago
I agree except your 3rd paragraph, because I dont think that would have the intended result. It breaks the findamental concept.
I read your comment as agreeing with Equal Protection. In the end we are talking about the penality for framing or depervation of rights under the color of law. It should apply to everyone. It's easy to point out the problem, but proposing a slution is much harder. Juries are the real firewall, but they depend on the knowledgebase of the jurors.
It's one of these things that a direct "of x then y" prob isnt going to work. Giving the public direct access to lower level raw information is what I would like to start with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232250
Imagine if we could script Pacer stats....
EDIT: hit my comment limit for the night, good point about the DA; in that case, it's the next level up from juries; the electorate. The DA is only accountable to them if they make them so, and public opinion does not always wait until the next election, bad PR is fixed astonishingly quickly if the DA's boss feels the pressure. If you have another idea, please propose it.
- kelnos 6y agoJurors don't help unless the DA actually prosecutes. And that doesn't seem to happen that often?
- dependenttypes 6y agotagging @Dang Dang could you check if the comment limiting on that user was a mistake?
- valuearb 6y agoSo it’s common to censor posters this way?
- dang 6y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20rate%20limit&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... HN is a moderated site. Whether that's censorship or not is mostly a word game; people use that word when they don't like a thing and different words when they do.
- jakeogh 6y agoIt's not an easy job. Thank you.
- dang 6y agoIt doesn't feel right for me to comment about an account in response to someone else's post. Maybe I'll say a general thing instead: We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars—and we're happy to remove the rate limit when people commit to following the site guidelines in the future. hn@ycombinator.com is the best place to contact about this.