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Bruh you are so out of touch, unable to see how people generally perceive HN and the blatant biases here, from behind that thesaurus. And: > leave the communi

Bruh you are so out of touch, unable to see how people generally perceive HN and the blatant biases here, from behind that thesaurus. And: > leave the community if you feel it's so bad Ahah there it is!! Really now? After all that big talk you have to fall back on THAT tired cliche-of-cliches response? How about the other way around: Make HN an exclusive invitation-only community if feel opening it to public criticism is so bad. You really should take a break and let some fresh blood replace you. HN is stale and stagnating, and it’s easy to see the cause.

dang 5y ago
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you should leave, and should not have been provocative by including that on the list. In that way you're quite right. FWIW, the option I would personally like you to choose (not that you should particularly care what I want) is #2. That is, I would like you stay, and also to follow the site guidelines. The problem is that your comments have been frequently and seriously breaking them, and we need you to fix that if you want to keep commenting here (which I hope you will). We've already had to ask you to fix this numerous times, and to judge by your commenting history, it's gotten worse recently. At the same time, your reply here made me realize that I overreacted to that, which I shouldn't have. I'm also mindful that it wasn't always this way, and you've posted good things in the past. As for "how people generally perceive HN", it's not that we/I don't care about that (we definitely do), but you have to understand that we're inundated with all kinds of generally-perceive-HNs, and these "general" perceptions are all over the place and profoundly contradictory. In fact, they're a statistical distribution that covers the entire spectrum. It's difficult to extract much signal from that—especially because people tend to express their personal feelings and complaints and views and experiences in the form of strong general claims. That doesn't mean we're not open to criticism and questions—it just means that criticisms and questions are best communicated in the form of specific points with specific links, and without a lot of the rhetoric that people (I'm speaking generally, not about you) often pour into these things.

dang 5y ago

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you should leave, and should not have been provocative by including that on the list. In that way you're quite right. FWIW, the option I would personally like you to choose (not that you should particularly care what I want) is #2. That is, I would like you stay, and also to follow the site guidelines. The problem is that your comments have been frequently and seriously breaking them, and we need you to fix that if you want to keep commenting here (which I hope you will). We've already had to ask you to fix this numerous times, and to judge by your commenting history, it's gotten worse recently. At the same time, your reply here made me realize that I overreacted to that, which I shouldn't have. I'm also mindful that it wasn't always this way, and you've posted good things in the past. As for "how people generally perceive HN", it's not that we/I don't care about that (we definitely do), but you have to understand that we're inundated with all kinds of generally-perceive-HNs, and these "general" perceptions are all over the place and profoundly contradictory. In fact, they're a statistical distribution that covers the entire spectrum. It's difficult to extract much signal from that—especially because people tend to express their personal feelings and complaints and views and experiences in the form of strong general claims. That doesn't mean we're not open to criticism and questions—it just means that criticisms and questions are best communicated in the form of specific points with specific links, and without a lot of the rhetoric that people (I'm speaking generally, not about you) often pour into these things.