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You mean like this one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170

by pg 18y ago

xenophanes 18y ago
No, not that one :) So, anyway, why did you ban xlnt and qqq, but not this account?
- pg 18y ago
  Optimism.
  - xenophanes 18y ago
    Funny, but still a very opaque policy. As far as I could tell, qqq was for criticizing your comments related to Israel, and xlnt was either for what qqq did or for having a new account. Is that right?
    - pg 18y ago
      It would have been because you used the same ip address as both curi and one or both of them. Edit: Usually that's how the software catches multiple accounts belonging to the same person, but I went back and looked, and in this case you (as qqq) outed yourself as curi.
      - xenophanes 18y ago
        I'm a little confused. I did not reset my modem or anything when making this account. I don't see why it wouldn't have triggered the same thing. And also, wouldn't the accounts get banned right away, not at a random time later? Did my ISP one day just happen to give me the same IP I had months ago? edit: Oh. I've outed myself lots of times...
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unalone 18y ago
Aww, but they were going someplace good with that! Out of curiosity, have you ever stopped a conversation just because it was getting exceptionally long? At a certain point does that mess up the table layout?
- xenophanes 18y ago
  Here is what happens to the UI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117118
- pg 18y ago
  No, of course not. I sometimes ask people to stop when they reach the yes-i-did-no-you-didn't stage, but because it's wasting everyone's time, not because it's messing up the page.
  - xenophanes 18y ago
    So, you believe you should judge the quality of comments, and put a stop to the ones you deem to have low quality, even if the participants disagree with you. And further, you think it is your role to protect people from "wasting time" by voluntarily reading comments of their choosing. You further ridicule the comments you disapprove of as "yes-i-did-no-you-didn't" style comments, knowing that isn't literally true in some cases.
    - unalone 18y ago
      You still haven't shown a good counterexample. Until then, I'm inclined to take him at his word, since I've never seen anything of the sort myself.
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      - xenophanes 18y ago
        What about the parenting thread I linked? PS YC and searchyc are both very slow for me. It's hard to find anything. If I could just search for posts by pg with certain keywords then I would give you better links, but I can't.

You mean like this one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170

by pg 18y ago

You mean like this one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140170

xenophanes 18y ago

No, not that one :) So, anyway, why did you ban xlnt and qqq, but not this account?

pg 18y ago
Optimism.
- xenophanes 18y ago
  Funny, but still a very opaque policy. As far as I could tell, qqq was for criticizing your comments related to Israel, and xlnt was either for what qqq did or for having a new account. Is that right?
  - pg 18y ago
    It would have been because you used the same ip address as both curi and one or both of them. Edit: Usually that's how the software catches multiple accounts belonging to the same person, but I went back and looked, and in this case you (as qqq) outed yourself as curi.
    - xenophanes 18y ago
      I'm a little confused. I did not reset my modem or anything when making this account. I don't see why it wouldn't have triggered the same thing. And also, wouldn't the accounts get banned right away, not at a random time later? Did my ISP one day just happen to give me the same IP I had months ago? edit: Oh. I've outed myself lots of times...
      - deleted 18y ago
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unalone 18y ago

Aww, but they were going someplace good with that! Out of curiosity, have you ever stopped a conversation just because it was getting exceptionally long? At a certain point does that mess up the table layout?

xenophanes 18y ago
Here is what happens to the UI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117118
pg 18y ago
No, of course not. I sometimes ask people to stop when they reach the yes-i-did-no-you-didn't stage, but because it's wasting everyone's time, not because it's messing up the page.
- xenophanes 18y ago
  So, you believe you should judge the quality of comments, and put a stop to the ones you deem to have low quality, even if the participants disagree with you. And further, you think it is your role to protect people from "wasting time" by voluntarily reading comments of their choosing. You further ridicule the comments you disapprove of as "yes-i-did-no-you-didn't" style comments, knowing that isn't literally true in some cases.
  - unalone 18y ago
    You still haven't shown a good counterexample. Until then, I'm inclined to take him at his word, since I've never seen anything of the sort myself.
    - deleted 18y ago
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    - xenophanes 18y ago
      What about the parenting thread I linked? PS YC and searchyc are both very slow for me. It's hard to find anything. If I could just search for posts by pg with certain keywords then I would give you better links, but I can't.