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+1 I'll admit: I have a bad habit of whenever I'm angry just rant online. I deleted the article since I didn't want to put any more bad press against CenturyL

by neelc 5y ago

+1 I'll admit: I have a bad habit of whenever I'm angry just rant online. I deleted the article since I didn't want to put any more bad press against CenturyLink or myself. I could just lie that "I turned off my Tor relay" and do nothing. About the other CenturyLink issue, it turned out it's an issue with the ONT, not the DoS protection, but a hard limit on the Broadcom Packet Flow Cache which is none of CL's issues. I'm buying another ONT off eBay to hope to fix it.

sillysaurusx 5y ago
A word of advice: the key to breaking this habit is to force yourself to put the community’s interests above your own. That’s what worked for me. For example, changing the title to a foreign language (in an effort to get the mods to wipe it off the front page?) only damages the community. HN needs to stay interesting to survive, and changing your title like that is both confusing and disappointing for the average HN user. (Normally, exotic titles that get upvoted to the front page turn out to be highly interesting.) I say this not to criticize, but to help you long-term. Firstly, relax. None of this is going to matter to you in a month. Secondly, focus on writing substantive content “from the heart.” Try to write out of curiosity, and make sure that any time you write out of anger, alarm bells are going off in your head. “Warning: this isn’t intellectual curiosity that I’m feeling.” Another solution in a case like this is to email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com and ask them to do whatever you wanted to do. I haven’t emailed in years, but when Scott was around, the return time on emails was sometimes less than one minute. (It was astonishing.) I urge you to try emailing, partly as a sign of good faith. As it stands now, it would be risky to let future articles from your domain sit on the front page, unless everyone understands this was a unique one-off situation. You clearly have a lot to offer, and I hope to see you around long-term. Best of luck. And remember: no stress, friend.

by neelc 5y ago

sillysaurusx 5y ago

A word of advice: the key to breaking this habit is to force yourself to put the community’s interests above your own. That’s what worked for me. For example, changing the title to a foreign language (in an effort to get the mods to wipe it off the front page?) only damages the community. HN needs to stay interesting to survive, and changing your title like that is both confusing and disappointing for the average HN user. (Normally, exotic titles that get upvoted to the front page turn out to be highly interesting.) I say this not to criticize, but to help you long-term. Firstly, relax. None of this is going to matter to you in a month. Secondly, focus on writing substantive content “from the heart.” Try to write out of curiosity, and make sure that any time you write out of anger, alarm bells are going off in your head. “Warning: this isn’t intellectual curiosity that I’m feeling.” Another solution in a case like this is to email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com and ask them to do whatever you wanted to do. I haven’t emailed in years, but when Scott was around, the return time on emails was sometimes less than one minute. (It was astonishing.) I urge you to try emailing, partly as a sign of good faith. As it stands now, it would be risky to let future articles from your domain sit on the front page, unless everyone understands this was a unique one-off situation. You clearly have a lot to offer, and I hope to see you around long-term. Best of luck. And remember: no stress, friend.