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@ someone on hn does not notify the person. Email them instead.
by shmde 3y ago
@ someone on hn does not notify the person. Email them instead.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIn practice it seems like dang does see most of the people who @ him, so maybe they have that string hardcoded somewhere for alerts. Or maybe he just reads all/most of the comments on all stories...
- viraptor 3y agoOr people see a futile use of tag and send on the message in a way that works. (I've done that in the past)
- Eisenstein 3y ago> Or maybe he just reads all/most of the comments on all stories... I think it's this one.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI doubt that's possible. It would be exhausting at best. But he probably does the equivalent of grepping them for [@]dang, and keywords that are typical in flamebait.
- tikkun 3y agoFWIW, I emailed him at the same time I posted the comment :)
- dang 3y agoGot it, thanks. In principle we could put Norway up there, but as any such ban is going to be in a particular jurisdiction, and as the domain suffix already indicates which one it is, I think it's ok to leave it implicit. It's ok for readers to work a little bit sometimes.