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HN doesn’t like reasonable questions in general. Jeff Geerling once got on the wrong side of HN moderation (falsely accused of spamming); you should see the hat
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
HN doesn’t like reasonable questions in general. Jeff Geerling once got on the wrong side of HN moderation (falsely accused of spamming); you should see the hate for HN in the comments on his post about it. Many choice words, increasingly completely deserved.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-hacker-news https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-h...
- cupcakecommons 2y ago[flagged]
- gjsman-1000 2y agoNonsense, even Reddit says this place is full of toxicity beyond themselves. And that was five years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/diduoy/hacker_news_sucks_dont_waste_your_time/ https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/diduoy/hacker_news_...
- cupcakecommons 2y agodoes hackernews sell "grassroots support" the same way reddit does? almost seems like it
- gjsman-1000 2y agoProbably. It’s public knowledge that all Y Combinator alumni get a special indicator, and can recognize each other on here, but nobody else is allowed to know who they are. For all you know, that post which was downvoted to oblivion, was solely because it upset five of the insiders, who are also the five replies calling you stupid.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- fragmede 2y agoFive? the link in the guidelines saying not to do that date back to the site's inception in the aughts
- MyOutfitIsVague 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. This is such a cliche, people have been saying it for almost two decades at this point.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoYes, but let’s say HN actually is turning into, or already has turned into, Reddit. We’ll never know, because it’s forbidden to say so.