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Have you tried posting it on your existing blog? How is your analysis of Twain so spicy that you’re expecting to both A. get autobanned by Medium and B. not be

Have you tried posting it on your existing blog? How is your analysis of Twain so spicy that you’re expecting to both A. get autobanned by Medium and B. not be able to get the ban reversed upon appeal? Would you care to share a snippet of your literary analysis that you think might lead to you being kicked off your platform? Otherwise, this seems like a bit of an ad for your (edgy?) blog.

dghlsakjg 4y ago
The author already explained that the issue is that he is planning on quoting offensive language from Mark Twain's Huck Finn. If you aren't familiar, the text contains gratuitous use of the n-word. I can totally understand the worry about getting picked up by automated moderation and not being able to appeal successfully. If Medium has an auto-ban policy on the n-word, the author could be deplatformed, or at the very least be at the mercy of a CS rep who is paid for volume of tickets solved, not for understanding the nuance of 19th century american literature.
- braingenious 4y ago
  The author thinks that quoting Mark Twain will get him permabanned from Medium without the ability to appeal successfully? On what factual grounds? Considering the fact that the theoretical chance of that happening has gotten a link to his blog to the front of HN, I would be fascinated to see Medium employees justify “No quoting literature with mean words no matter the context” to the posters on here if they chose that route. So far I’ve only got a couple of pieces of information: a link to a blog and the promise of some groundbreaking new literary analysis that’s ~too critical and offensive to the algorithm to even try posting~. It kind of reads like an ad. I am familiar with Twain’s work, I’ve read it, along with lots of critiques and articles (he is one of the most popular and analyzed authors in US history)
  - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
    I'm guessing they don't want to deal with it. This is actually good, if more people chose not to use Medium because of issues like this, Medium would adapt or die.
    - braingenious 4y ago
      Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something. I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?
      - atian 4y ago
        This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.
        braingenious 4y ago
        Nvm, this whole post is just whipping up attention before he posts. It is factually untrue that the usage of slurs results in an automatic and incontestable ban, and I would be surprised if OP did not bother to do any basic searching before inventing this boogeyman. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227936
bryanrasmussen 4y ago
Response partially in here as to why I worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230225

dghlsakjg 4y ago

The author already explained that the issue is that he is planning on quoting offensive language from Mark Twain's Huck Finn. If you aren't familiar, the text contains gratuitous use of the n-word. I can totally understand the worry about getting picked up by automated moderation and not being able to appeal successfully. If Medium has an auto-ban policy on the n-word, the author could be deplatformed, or at the very least be at the mercy of a CS rep who is paid for volume of tickets solved, not for understanding the nuance of 19th century american literature.

braingenious 4y ago
The author thinks that quoting Mark Twain will get him permabanned from Medium without the ability to appeal successfully? On what factual grounds? Considering the fact that the theoretical chance of that happening has gotten a link to his blog to the front of HN, I would be fascinated to see Medium employees justify “No quoting literature with mean words no matter the context” to the posters on here if they chose that route. So far I’ve only got a couple of pieces of information: a link to a blog and the promise of some groundbreaking new literary analysis that’s ~too critical and offensive to the algorithm to even try posting~. It kind of reads like an ad. I am familiar with Twain’s work, I’ve read it, along with lots of critiques and articles (he is one of the most popular and analyzed authors in US history)
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
  I'm guessing they don't want to deal with it. This is actually good, if more people chose not to use Medium because of issues like this, Medium would adapt or die.
  - braingenious 4y ago
    Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something. I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?
    - atian 4y ago
      This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.
      - braingenious 4y ago
        Nvm, this whole post is just whipping up attention before he posts. It is factually untrue that the usage of slurs results in an automatic and incontestable ban, and I would be surprised if OP did not bother to do any basic searching before inventing this boogeyman. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227936

bryanrasmussen 4y ago

Response partially in here as to why I worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230225