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Hi all, Ryan's roommate here, longtime HN lurker. It would have been nice if FB locked down his profile a little sooner, for sure. I imagine we're going to be

Hi all, Ryan's roommate here, longtime HN lurker. It would have been nice if FB locked down his profile a little sooner, for sure. I imagine we're going to be dealing with this shit for a while to come now. If you wouldn't mind, can you help us get the hashtag #ApologizeToRyan off the ground? Maybe social media can be used to restore his good name, too.

stevvooe 14y ago
No promises on the hash tag, but I lend my condolences on any losses he may have in this awful scenario.
cynicalkane 14y ago
I mean well when I say this but I think it needs to be said. My Bayesian probability sense is tingling. HN is comparatively small compared to the space of people-who-could-be-Ryan's-roommate.
- koudelka 14y ago
  Well, there's probably nothing sensible that I could do to prove who I am. I promise that making the hashtag trend wont blow up the world.
  - gregsq 14y ago
    And there's something of an irony. I'm glad to see that rational distinction prevails in this smaller forum. It's difficult to derive an as useful moderator as yours is here to the much larger colosseum of Facebook. Anyone can be a deputy on Facebook. If it was the physical world and someone put up a notice in a meeting place inviting a hundred people to come and trash a citizens home, or where a lynch mob gathered under that roof to engage in hysterical damaging acts against a citizen protected ordinarily by law, we would not say that the owner of the meeting place did not at least have a duty of care. It would be an impossible contradiction to require the venue owner to install fire exit signs to protect an individual and yet allow no interference if the individual is set alight inside the building instead. Maybe Facebook is a bit like a nightclub. Go and have a good time and no one should get in your face while you're partying. Just don't expect that you won't get in a bar fight once in a while. And if it gets too messy, management will throw you out.
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stevvooe 14y ago

No promises on the hash tag, but I lend my condolences on any losses he may have in this awful scenario.

cynicalkane 14y ago

I mean well when I say this but I think it needs to be said. My Bayesian probability sense is tingling. HN is comparatively small compared to the space of people-who-could-be-Ryan's-roommate.

koudelka 14y ago
Well, there's probably nothing sensible that I could do to prove who I am. I promise that making the hashtag trend wont blow up the world.
- gregsq 14y ago
  And there's something of an irony. I'm glad to see that rational distinction prevails in this smaller forum. It's difficult to derive an as useful moderator as yours is here to the much larger colosseum of Facebook. Anyone can be a deputy on Facebook. If it was the physical world and someone put up a notice in a meeting place inviting a hundred people to come and trash a citizens home, or where a lynch mob gathered under that roof to engage in hysterical damaging acts against a citizen protected ordinarily by law, we would not say that the owner of the meeting place did not at least have a duty of care. It would be an impossible contradiction to require the venue owner to install fire exit signs to protect an individual and yet allow no interference if the individual is set alight inside the building instead. Maybe Facebook is a bit like a nightclub. Go and have a good time and no one should get in your face while you're partying. Just don't expect that you won't get in a bar fight once in a while. And if it gets too messy, management will throw you out.

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