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Ghost Protocols
- RattleyCooper 5y ago[flagged]
- endofreach 5y agoI think this is a non-necessary comment. This shouldn‘t be on HN. You might want to rephrase that.
- _ZeD_ 5y agowell, the whole post shouldn't be no HN
- travisgriggs 5y ago<whisper>I’m not going to respond to you</whisper>
- spoonjim 5y agoIf you follow the author on Twitter I think you'll find that he wouldn't entirely disagree with you. He's openly discussed how he sees people as systems to be observed and studied.
- DocTomoe 5y agoLike an anthropologist, or a psychologist...
- strogonoff 5y agoIt’s called Minimum Viable Sociopathy, vgr wrote an essay[0] on it earlier. [0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/11/20/learning-to-fly-by-missing-the-ground/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/11/20/learning-to-fly-by-mis...
- conjectures 5y agoCould it be the advert for his book 'Be slightly evil: A playbook for sociopaths' by any chance?
- DoreenMichele 5y agoBits I especially liked: Then there’s softer Gemeinschaft ghost protocols, like the one the housed adopt towards the homeless. A ghost protocol cannot be announced or otherwise ceremonialized. Cancelation, exile, or excommunication are not forms of ghosting.
- dschuetz 5y agoThis is what people mean when they talk about 'ghosting' other people online.
- have_faith 5y agoIs shadow banning a form of ghost protocol? something HN of course engages in.
- 0des 5y agoThere are a lot of smart people here who are shadow banned, I'm constantly vouching for accounts who have zero warnings or any mod-correspondence to show for it. It kind of feels like Reddit except there's no coherent ideology being censored, just random nerds who say interesting things I can't read without squinting or selecting.
- crocodiletears 5y agoI spend a lot of time vouching as well. Is that actual shadowbanning? Or just overzealous flagging by certain users?
- 0des 5y agoSince it is without explanation in the majority of cases, I can only assume it is overzealous dangs and other mod team members that are less visible. They are immediate, and without explanation.
- varjag 5y agoIs being childless really that much of an ostracisation in (I assume) North America? It is certainly noone else's business (save for maybe your parents) here in Northern Europe.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- adfm 5y agoNot really. I suppose it's the author struggling with dogma. Let's hope they make it through to the other side.