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Nearly everything this article takes issue with could be fixed by treating rich metadata at the filesystem level as a first class citizen, and enhancing basic d

Nearly everything this article takes issue with could be fixed by treating rich metadata at the filesystem level as a first class citizen, and enhancing basic dialog functions to reflect that metadata.

dang 5y ago
Unrelated, but could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=community%20identity%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- gautamcgoel 5y ago
  May I ask how do you know it's the same person across accounts? Do you guys track our IP addresses or something?
  - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
    I'm not a mod, but they almost certainly track the IP addresses of people who create accounts. It's basically impossible to do spam prevention otherwise.
    - hutrdvnj 5y ago
      I think that most people don't have static IPs and then there are proxies and VPNs... I don't think that IP is a meaningful identifier. From my experience IP bans never really work, except maybe for range IP bans, but then you might affect other users too and of course you could still circumvent it with a VPN.
      - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
        I once created a throwaway on HN for something sensitive, and I happened to be on a VPN at the time. My comment started out dead and I had to vouch for it on my main account. So I think that's just the tradeoff they make, in order for HN to be able to exist. It probably gets reversed if you email the support link.
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dang 5y ago

Unrelated, but could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=community%20identity%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

gautamcgoel 5y ago
May I ask how do you know it's the same person across accounts? Do you guys track our IP addresses or something?
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  I'm not a mod, but they almost certainly track the IP addresses of people who create accounts. It's basically impossible to do spam prevention otherwise.
  - hutrdvnj 5y ago
    I think that most people don't have static IPs and then there are proxies and VPNs... I don't think that IP is a meaningful identifier. From my experience IP bans never really work, except maybe for range IP bans, but then you might affect other users too and of course you could still circumvent it with a VPN.
    - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
      I once created a throwaway on HN for something sensitive, and I happened to be on a VPN at the time. My comment started out dead and I had to vouch for it on my main account. So I think that's just the tradeoff they make, in order for HN to be able to exist. It probably gets reversed if you email the support link.
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