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Dang, YC needs to figure out if HN is going to tolerate this or not. It's rotting the community. I am so sick and tired of being harassed and flagged and downv

by echelon 3mo ago

Dang, YC needs to figure out if HN is going to tolerate this or not. It's rotting the community. I am so sick and tired of being harassed and flagged and downvoted to -4 for being a builder. These people are destroying this community. You need to do something . Here's OP's disgusting comment: > You should kill yourself then. You’d never have to see a single one of them again! And the average IQ in your country will raise by a bit. > Did your mom not buy you that Lego set you wanted or something? I fail to see how internet comments prevent you from “building”. I am getting this bullshit on every social media. It is a disease. HN needs to purge the community of this madness. The people building are being harassed.

tomhow 3mo ago
We don't tolerate comments like this. We've banned the account now that we've seen it, just as we always do when we see accounts posting like this. This is a troll account and these kinds of trolls have always existed on HN. As far as we can tell it's a small number of trolls registering accounts over and over, saying the same things over and over. We ban them as soon as we see them. We don't see comments just because you mention dang's name in them (he's not the only moderator here, and even if he was, he doesn't scan for mentions of his username). We see things that are flagged (when we get to them) or (more quickly) when people email us (hn@ycombinator.com). > HN needs to purge the community of this madness HN is an open, anonymous site. We can't stop people new accounts signing up and posting troll comments. Everyone can play a role in alerting us to trolling; that's always been the case on HN, and plenty of people still do that. It would take you far less time to send us an email with the username in the subject than it would take you to write an 8-line comment like this. It's not the case that anti-AI sentiment or anti-building sentiment is dominant on HN; it's just a case of the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=notice%20dislike%20bias%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... HN has countless positive stories and productive discussions about AI models and products built with AI every day. Please don't let the trolls win by taking their trolling personally.

by echelon 3mo ago

tomhow 3mo ago

We don't tolerate comments like this. We've banned the account now that we've seen it, just as we always do when we see accounts posting like this. This is a troll account and these kinds of trolls have always existed on HN. As far as we can tell it's a small number of trolls registering accounts over and over, saying the same things over and over. We ban them as soon as we see them. We don't see comments just because you mention dang's name in them (he's not the only moderator here, and even if he was, he doesn't scan for mentions of his username). We see things that are flagged (when we get to them) or (more quickly) when people email us (hn@ycombinator.com). > HN needs to purge the community of this madness HN is an open, anonymous site. We can't stop people new accounts signing up and posting troll comments. Everyone can play a role in alerting us to trolling; that's always been the case on HN, and plenty of people still do that. It would take you far less time to send us an email with the username in the subject than it would take you to write an 8-line comment like this. It's not the case that anti-AI sentiment or anti-building sentiment is dominant on HN; it's just a case of the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=notice%20dislike%20bias%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... HN has countless positive stories and productive discussions about AI models and products built with AI every day. Please don't let the trolls win by taking their trolling personally.