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> edit2: The part in question is a little addition to the normal window locks. You can slide the part over the window lock handle and it will anchor itself betw

by kodah 3y ago

> edit2: The part in question is a little addition to the normal window locks. You can slide the part over the window lock handle and it will anchor itself between handle and window frame due to its geometry. My friend asked for this, so his children would not be able to open the windows and fall out. Posters do need to be specific but we also don't need to Boogeyman our own community. Nowhere in that post did OP ask for HN to be their personal army. They asked for advice at the end.

lazyasciiart 3y ago
Hmm, this line seem like asking for action on their behalf: > Anybody out here with some connections who can help?
- martin_a 3y ago
  Obviously that would be the jackpot: Somebody working at Etsy, helping me understand WHY exactly the account was banned and not only the product (which would probably have been an option?!?). Give me back the account, I will come up with something else to design and sell, that's okay. But nuking the whole account and keeping the money while warning/prohibiting me to create another account is just shitty.
lolinder 3y ago
Yes, they did, but only after my parent comment was resurrected from being grayed out at the bottom of the page. I wasn't trying to turn anyone into a boogeyman, but I have watched more than enough outrage parades on HN that turned out to be in support of a scoundrel. If we can establish the expectation that you're fully upfront about the details, then we as a community can avoid repeats of those events while still helping people like OP who are genuinely confused.
- kodah 3y ago
  > most of these threads a few hours after they've made it big More than enough or "most"? The latter doesn't seem true from the threads I've followed and would qualify as "boogeymanning" to me. The former seems reasonable and a sensible request for more information. The difference is that the latter automatically lumps OPs request in with "most" supposedly fraudulent requests for help/words of warning.
  - lolinder 3y ago
    You're right that I could have been more specific about what type of thread I was referring to, but at that time OP had multiple comments in which they were dodging the question, so I meant "these threads" to mean very specifically the combination of factors that I was observing at that time—a business banned from a platform and the business owner being sketchy about what they were trying to sell. The thread has evolved since then to seem less sketchy, and I believe that is largely because my parent comment was resurrected and spent a while at the top. It's easy to judge my methods when you're looking at a completely different thread than the one I came to.

by kodah 3y ago

lazyasciiart 3y ago

Hmm, this line seem like asking for action on their behalf: > Anybody out here with some connections who can help?

martin_a 3y ago
Obviously that would be the jackpot: Somebody working at Etsy, helping me understand WHY exactly the account was banned and not only the product (which would probably have been an option?!?). Give me back the account, I will come up with something else to design and sell, that's okay. But nuking the whole account and keeping the money while warning/prohibiting me to create another account is just shitty.

lolinder 3y ago

Yes, they did, but only after my parent comment was resurrected from being grayed out at the bottom of the page. I wasn't trying to turn anyone into a boogeyman, but I have watched more than enough outrage parades on HN that turned out to be in support of a scoundrel. If we can establish the expectation that you're fully upfront about the details, then we as a community can avoid repeats of those events while still helping people like OP who are genuinely confused.

kodah 3y ago
> most of these threads a few hours after they've made it big More than enough or "most"? The latter doesn't seem true from the threads I've followed and would qualify as "boogeymanning" to me. The former seems reasonable and a sensible request for more information. The difference is that the latter automatically lumps OPs request in with "most" supposedly fraudulent requests for help/words of warning.
- lolinder 3y ago
  You're right that I could have been more specific about what type of thread I was referring to, but at that time OP had multiple comments in which they were dodging the question, so I meant "these threads" to mean very specifically the combination of factors that I was observing at that time—a business banned from a platform and the business owner being sketchy about what they were trying to sell. The thread has evolved since then to seem less sketchy, and I believe that is largely because my parent comment was resurrected and spent a while at the top. It's easy to judge my methods when you're looking at a completely different thread than the one I came to.