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An inconvenient truth of HN seems to be that 95% of voter ring detections are legit, while the other 5% are not. This is understandable. As jQueryIsAwesome said
by apeace 14y ago
An inconvenient truth of HN seems to be that 95% of voter ring detections are legit, while the other 5% are not. This is understandable. As jQueryIsAwesome said, it's a tricky problem.
Another inconvenient truth is, the demigods of HN often see the 95% as the 100%. No matter what defenses fellow HN users can come up with, pg likely gave his response in the way he did because he assumed something about you. Knowing pg's writings, he may have apologized or at least explained the problem if he had identified one. To say that terseness is pg's typical mode is...wrong.
I'm glad you pointed this out. pg has done a lot for this community, so we can't criticize too lightly. But it is a shame that in this instance, he didn't take that extra step for a fellow hacker.
- shanelja 14y agoI should state that I'm not part of the original posters team or in any way affiliated with them to alleviate any confusion ("he assumed something about you") before I go on. I don't wish to devolve in to bitchiness and have no reason to continue criticizing PG after my original post, but I agree that thus far PG has already done a lot to help the community and that he could have done more in this case. I'm not saying your post was bitchy, I'm saying that I couldn't think of a response which wouldn't have come across as needlessly bitchy if I continued to criticise PG after my original statement