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Yes I understand I only made this recently. I've read for a while and wanted the ability to vote and comment so I made it. I updated my github[1] to prove owner
by RealityWinner 5y ago
Yes I understand I only made this recently. I've read for a while and wanted the ability to vote and comment so I made it. I updated my github[1] to prove ownership as well and put it in my about. If there are any issues brought up to me by other users about my name I would be open to renaming but at this time I would much prefer to use the username i've been using.
[1]https://github.com/RealityWinner https://github.com/RealityWinner
- dang 5y agoOk, we can leave it like this for now, but if people end up reacting in the way I described, we're going to end up enforcing the policy. I've learned that it's much better to deal with these things earlier than later, but this is a borderline case so we can kick the can down the road.
- RealityWinner 5y agoThanks, I understand. In the meantime can you point me to where the policy is? I don't see it in the Guidelines[1]. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoThere are zillions of moderation practices like that one. They all appear repeatedly in my moderation comments, often with search links that point to past examples. But we don't make a formal list, for a bunch of reasons. One is that it would make the guidelines so long that no one would read them. Another is that we're not bureaucrats. A third is that if you make a list of everything, people will conclude that if something is not on the list, it must be ok, and that's not at all how HN works. It has always been a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law place.
- RealityWinner 5y agoMerely wanted to familiarize myself with any rules that I was not aware of. Cheers.