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I can't make out what you're specifically saying here, but "fakes posts later" doesn't pattern-match in my mind to anything we actually do. All of things we act
by dang 10mo ago
I can't make out what you're specifically saying here, but "fakes posts later" doesn't pattern-match in my mind to anything we actually do. All of things we actually do regarding re-upping posts, timestamps, and so on, I've explained many times (e.g. about timestamps here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps%20re-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), and we're always happy to answer good-faith questions.
As for "the famous Dropbox post", if you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863, there was nothing fake about it.
- AlexeyBelov 10mo agoRead their other comments. Why do you allow this as a mod?
- dang 10mo agoWe don't. That account has been banned for months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545661. If you're seeing their other comments, it must be because you have 'showdead' turned on in your profile. Anyone is welcome to turn that on and see all the comments that have been killed for various reasons, but it's important to understand that if you do, you're signing up to see the worst that the internet brings to HN. As I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538728, users sometimes forget that they turned 'showdead' on, then wonder why they're seeing such dreadful stuff in the comments. Could it be that that's what happened in this case?