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Those sorts of presumptive openers go unchecked all the time and we both know it. I'm not going to say anything about the patterns about when they do and don't
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Those sorts of presumptive openers go unchecked all the time and we both know it. I'm not going to say anything about the patterns about when they do and don't go unchecked because I don't have the data but at some point poor enforcement becomes selective enforcement.
- dang 5y agoIf by 'unchecked' you mean unmoderated, that's likely for the simple reason that we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You can help with that by flagging such comments or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases. People breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you or anyone else to break them, though. I replied to your comment because I happened to see it—it's not as if I recognized your username or have any idea what your views are!
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI mean both unmoderated and uncriticized by the community. I know you can't mod everything but it's an not exactly secret that nobody snidely cites the guidelines when they're being lightly violated by people arguing for whatever the majority view is and people are happy to snidely cite them when people arguing for whatever the minority opinion is even get close to getting out of line. To then show up and do that as moderator is not great. Basically the ref can stand to go a little less hard on whoever is losing.