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> You may have heard differently, especially if you saw my doxxing[4b] on the unsavory website. Is it pretty common to get doxxed for getting to the top of HN?

amiga386 1y ago
It is not. But if you show HN something... and it makes HN-reading KF users think "OH EXPLOITABLE!!!111!" so they post it to KF... they're basically going to test if your moderation works or not. If you only have some automated rules or even "AI" as the moderation, not humans, then they're very quickly going to work out what gets past your automated filter and what doesn't, faster than 4chan can make Microsoft's Tay say "Hitler did nothing wrong". Then the KF users will gloat about the slur-ridden fish they've made. Then KF-reading Sharty users will learn about it, the rest of the Sharty will join in the game. Then they'll get angry that your "normie" userbase has given a Palestine flag fish named "River to the Sea" the most upvotes, and an Israel flag fish the most downvotes, they'll want to cheat and hack their own creations to the top. So they'll start looking for an admin interface. When they find one, but find it needs credentials, the first place they'll go looking for password clues is all your socials, all your previous forums, basically your whole identity. And if they hit paydirt, of course they'll post whatever they find, because for them, doxxing people is fun too.
- amy_petrik 1y ago
  This comedy bit explains the thinking of such folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibWo9t6pos#t=10m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibWo9t6pos#t=10m
- SirChud 1y ago
  Imagine that, hackers reading Hacker News.
thrance 1y ago
Just scroll to the bottom of this page and look at the idiots bragging about making swastika fishes. HN nurtures this community of mentally ill edgelords that we could very well do without.
- rightbyte 1y ago
  At my prior work we had this garage where we could wash our cars. But once the sponge was in the wrong place and the responsible foreman shut the whole thing down. "This is why we can't have nice things" he said. Just ignore the trolls and wait for the fish mods to ban them.

amiga386 1y ago

It is not. But if you show HN something... and it makes HN-reading KF users think "OH EXPLOITABLE!!!111!" so they post it to KF... they're basically going to test if your moderation works or not. If you only have some automated rules or even "AI" as the moderation, not humans, then they're very quickly going to work out what gets past your automated filter and what doesn't, faster than 4chan can make Microsoft's Tay say "Hitler did nothing wrong". Then the KF users will gloat about the slur-ridden fish they've made. Then KF-reading Sharty users will learn about it, the rest of the Sharty will join in the game. Then they'll get angry that your "normie" userbase has given a Palestine flag fish named "River to the Sea" the most upvotes, and an Israel flag fish the most downvotes, they'll want to cheat and hack their own creations to the top. So they'll start looking for an admin interface. When they find one, but find it needs credentials, the first place they'll go looking for password clues is all your socials, all your previous forums, basically your whole identity. And if they hit paydirt, of course they'll post whatever they find, because for them, doxxing people is fun too.

amy_petrik 1y ago
This comedy bit explains the thinking of such folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibWo9t6pos#t=10m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibWo9t6pos#t=10m
SirChud 1y ago
Imagine that, hackers reading Hacker News.

thrance 1y ago

Just scroll to the bottom of this page and look at the idiots bragging about making swastika fishes. HN nurtures this community of mentally ill edgelords that we could very well do without.

rightbyte 1y ago
At my prior work we had this garage where we could wash our cars. But once the sponge was in the wrong place and the responsible foreman shut the whole thing down. "This is why we can't have nice things" he said. Just ignore the trolls and wait for the fish mods to ban them.