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This website you’re reading now has “guidelines”, yet no-one is accusing hn of creating a harsher world (at least not in the word they use instead of rules).
by brosinante 6y ago
This website you’re reading now has “guidelines”, yet no-one is accusing hn of creating a harsher world (at least not in the word they use instead of rules).
- newyorker2 6y ago1. I don't remember paying $99 to have my comments published on HN. 2. A take down of "guideline" breaking comments doesn't impact my income as an app developer.
- coldtea 6y ago>1. I don't remember paying $99 to have my comments published on HN. That's because you pay with your eyeballs (for premium dev/business/startup traffic to YC's posts).
- bhupy 6y agoI’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This isn’t a misdirection, it’s a euphemism. We use them a lot in the English language, especially in marketing. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a separate question. IMO policing tone is a mostly uninteresting exercise.
- LudwigNagasena 6y agoIt is not even an euphemism. It is just a way to enforce rules selectively.