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>How about you put the link in a reply to this comment, and we'll see if it "gets autokilled" (tagged dead). Okay, here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/ed

>How about you put the link in a reply to this comment, and we'll see if it "gets autokilled" (tagged dead). Okay, here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=30576525 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=30576525 The reason this took four hours is because every time this topic comes up, I get terrified, and I can't bring myself to check HN at all. So I didn't see your request till now. (The fear is much the same as his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTMbIxEj-E&t=16s&ab_channel=TheTwilightZone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTMbIxEj-E&t=16s&ab_channel...) As I mentioned there, you can contact me via Twitter (https://twitter.com/theshawwn https://twitter.com/theshawwn) or by email (shawnpresser@gmail.com). I recently started using Telegram too. It's pretty nice. (https://t.me/theshawwn https://t.me/theshawwn) Otherwise, it looks like there's no way to reach you, so I'll simply say that I hope you have a wonderful week. Take care.

skissane 5y ago
I can only guess at what is going on in Dan's head, but I think he banned mention of your "fork" of the HN community because people felt that it was being promoted in a "spammy" way. I don't think he is banning it simply because he hates competition and doesn't want its existence mentioned - if that was his reason, why are people allowed to freely discuss and link to another such "fork community", lobste.rs? [0] The fact that your fork of the Arc language and HN forum software has the same name means the same autokill applies to it as well. I suppose if you changed the name of the language/software fork to something else, it would no longer be subject to the ban. (I am assuming the intended target of the ban is the website not the language/software which runs it.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs

skissane 5y ago

I can only guess at what is going on in Dan's head, but I think he banned mention of your "fork" of the HN community because people felt that it was being promoted in a "spammy" way. I don't think he is banning it simply because he hates competition and doesn't want its existence mentioned - if that was his reason, why are people allowed to freely discuss and link to another such "fork community", lobste.rs? [0] The fact that your fork of the Arc language and HN forum software has the same name means the same autokill applies to it as well. I suppose if you changed the name of the language/software fork to something else, it would no longer be subject to the ban. (I am assuming the intended target of the ban is the website not the language/software which runs it.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs