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The comments are on different HN posts, is that against the rules? I am having to comment and share my opinion on all of the posts separately because someone o
by dcchambers 1y ago
The comments are on different HN posts, is that against the rules?
I am having to comment and share my opinion on all of the posts separately because someone or some group of people keep flagging the posts to try and hide discussion about this very real incident.
- dang 1y agoYes, please don't post duplicate things: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20duplicate%20signal%20noise&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
- dcchambers 1y agoI respect and admire all of the work you put into this site Dang, so please don't think I'm being disrespectful. But you should consider adding something to the official guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And to be fair, I don't think me sharing the same comment across three separate HN posts (two of which are flagged, so invisible to users unless they search for it) counts as spamming duplicate content though.
- dang 1y agoI hear you! but we can't add all the informal rules/conventions to the guidelines because that would make them so long that nobody would read them. HN is a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place anyhow (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20spirit%20letter%20law&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).