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> We're trying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can avoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default. Plus liberal use of disabling p
by xenophanes 18y ago
> We're trying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can avoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default.
Plus liberal use of disabling people's accounts without notifying them let alone asking them to change something.
- allenbrunson 18y agoi've seen pg make polite suggestions to commenters who are out of line. they almost always completely ignore him. given that he's got other things to do besides just moderate this site, i don't blame him at all for killing the accounts of unruly posters. at that point, the onus is on them to do something to get back in his good graces, or just go somewhere else.
- mst 18y agoI think it basically boils down to: Hacker News logins are a privilege, not a right. Coming from a background of things like talkers where you needed to be explicitly invited by another user before you could get in, I don't really have a problem with that.
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