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I don't care whether you believe me or not.

dang 3y ago
Can you please not post like this? It's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- barneygale 3y ago
  Sorry, I'll just flag their comments in future and explain why I'm doing so.
  - pvg 3y ago
    explain why I'm doing so. Just flagging is enough. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22don%27t%20respond%22%20flag&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    - barneygale 3y ago
      Thanks - I'd previously read the rules but totally misremembered them, I thought you were /supposed/ to reply when flagging!
dymk 3y ago
[flagged]
- dang 3y ago
  Can you please not post like this? It's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
  - dymk 3y ago
    In hindsight I agree, but I'm confused why only the comments on "one side" (which all seem to be equally substantive) are being flagged, and not all the participants in general.
    - dang 3y ago
      That's either randomness (every random sequence has long strings of all-heads or all-tails) or cognitive bias (it always feels like the other side is getting treated better) or some combo of the two. I don't mean to be glib or dismissive I'm just writing this rather hastily! and this is a pretty well-established finding, at least in my own head, having gone over I don't know how many thousands of these cases... Edit: but if you want to link to specific cases where you feel like there was an asymmetry, I'd be happy to take a look.
- barneygale 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - dymk 3y ago
    I can see why you'd flag the other comments and I apologize for those, but 38327624 (the rootward one) was phrased to not be antagonistic.
    - barneygale 3y ago
      I didn't flag that one I don't think, but I suspect the use of "cope" set some folks off.

dang 3y ago

Can you please not post like this? It's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

barneygale 3y ago
Sorry, I'll just flag their comments in future and explain why I'm doing so.
- pvg 3y ago
  explain why I'm doing so. Just flagging is enough. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22don%27t%20respond%22%20flag&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - barneygale 3y ago
    Thanks - I'd previously read the rules but totally misremembered them, I thought you were /supposed/ to reply when flagging!

dymk 3y ago

[flagged]

dang 3y ago
Can you please not post like this? It's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- dymk 3y ago
  In hindsight I agree, but I'm confused why only the comments on "one side" (which all seem to be equally substantive) are being flagged, and not all the participants in general.
  - dang 3y ago
    That's either randomness (every random sequence has long strings of all-heads or all-tails) or cognitive bias (it always feels like the other side is getting treated better) or some combo of the two. I don't mean to be glib or dismissive I'm just writing this rather hastily! and this is a pretty well-established finding, at least in my own head, having gone over I don't know how many thousands of these cases... Edit: but if you want to link to specific cases where you feel like there was an asymmetry, I'd be happy to take a look.
barneygale 3y ago
[flagged]
- dymk 3y ago
  I can see why you'd flag the other comments and I apologize for those, but 38327624 (the rootward one) was phrased to not be antagonistic.
  - barneygale 3y ago
    I didn't flag that one I don't think, but I suspect the use of "cope" set some folks off.