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dang 5y ago
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- sleepingadmin 5y ago
  Hello Dang, Out of curiosity, what rule did I break? I had a fairly long post. I had people responding to me but I guess I can't respond to anymore?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361631 Mikeyouse said: >And that idiotic CNN chyron was clipped to be troll bait for the credulous. If you honestly believe that's how the protests were covered, you should spend some time reflecting on where you get your news and who you trust. This was in response to me posting: https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1298863702272344064 https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1298863702272344064 and making comment. This was in the context of my post explaining how non-violence similar to MLKjr and Ghandi is an absolute rule. That saying 'peaceful protest' while standing in front of cars on fire is a violation of the rule. I feel this is a reasonable and fair discussion.
  - dang 5y ago
    I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies. In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear. Edit: I checked the code and I don't see that bug, so I believe there would have been a 'delete' link at the time you edited your comment.
    - sleepingadmin 5y ago
      >I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." I don't have buttons to delete, edit, or flag, never did on my previous account neither. My understanding was that I do not have these as part of upvote threshold like being unable to downvote. Maybe it's my fault and some sort of addon doing something? >Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies. I personally did not do this. >In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear. Well no, there was also another comment insulting me mostly. I dont recall the username. I wasn't planning to reply to that one. It was obvious that they were triggered by my comments about the democratic party. I didn't really intend to cause a fight over those comments. I guess that Mikeouse has the right of the person who replied to me. Thanks I guess, I'll move on.
      - dang 5y ago
        Every post to HN has a 'delete' link for a certain amount of time after the post is made, as long as the post doesn't have replies. (We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread.) This doesn't depend on karma. Flagging depends on karma but the threshold is low (only 30) so you can certainly do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag about how to flag comments. I'm a bit confused here: > I personally did not do this. Are we talking about the same 'this"? The logs say that you edited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 to replace the text with "Flagged" a few minutes after you originally posted it. I'm definitely not meaning to be critical and I don't want you to go away feeling unfairly treated, so I'd prefer to get this clear. Especially if I'm mistaken about something.
        sleepingadmin 5y ago
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dang 5y ago

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sleepingadmin 5y ago
Hello Dang, Out of curiosity, what rule did I break? I had a fairly long post. I had people responding to me but I guess I can't respond to anymore?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361631 Mikeyouse said: >And that idiotic CNN chyron was clipped to be troll bait for the credulous. If you honestly believe that's how the protests were covered, you should spend some time reflecting on where you get your news and who you trust. This was in response to me posting: https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1298863702272344064 https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1298863702272344064 and making comment. This was in the context of my post explaining how non-violence similar to MLKjr and Ghandi is an absolute rule. That saying 'peaceful protest' while standing in front of cars on fire is a violation of the rule. I feel this is a reasonable and fair discussion.
- dang 5y ago
  I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies. In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear. Edit: I checked the code and I don't see that bug, so I believe there would have been a 'delete' link at the time you edited your comment.
  - sleepingadmin 5y ago
    >I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." I don't have buttons to delete, edit, or flag, never did on my previous account neither. My understanding was that I do not have these as part of upvote threshold like being unable to downvote. Maybe it's my fault and some sort of addon doing something? >Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies. I personally did not do this. >In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear. Well no, there was also another comment insulting me mostly. I dont recall the username. I wasn't planning to reply to that one. It was obvious that they were triggered by my comments about the democratic party. I didn't really intend to cause a fight over those comments. I guess that Mikeouse has the right of the person who replied to me. Thanks I guess, I'll move on.
    - dang 5y ago
      Every post to HN has a 'delete' link for a certain amount of time after the post is made, as long as the post doesn't have replies. (We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread.) This doesn't depend on karma. Flagging depends on karma but the threshold is low (only 30) so you can certainly do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag about how to flag comments. I'm a bit confused here: > I personally did not do this. Are we talking about the same 'this"? The logs say that you edited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 to replace the text with "Flagged" a few minutes after you originally posted it. I'm definitely not meaning to be critical and I don't want you to go away feeling unfairly treated, so I'd prefer to get this clear. Especially if I'm mistaken about something.
      - sleepingadmin 5y ago

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