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your name is bad for the site and you should change it. nomen est omen.

maxerickson 12y ago
Repeatedly breaking threads by deleting your comments after there are replies is worse. So is threatening to delete your comments over down votes.
- logicallee 12y ago
  I delete comments to keep the site clean and on-topic, and not too argumentative. It's not 'threatening to delete my comments over downvotes' it's 'agreeing to withdraw a comment if it's too controversial.' (i.e. downvotes, no replies.) Not every thought needs to be voiced. Also, your feedback may have been better directed to my email, I do list one. An example of where I recently deleted a comment was in response to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569545 where my opinion was actively solicited. However, I decided that the reply to it sent the thread in a wrong direction, and also could be read without my reply. I looked instead for the person's email who had asked, but he didn't list one so I ended up deleting my comment. In effect I was saying that on reflection I chose not to comment on the linked essay in that thread.
  - maxerickson 12y ago
    Well, your reasoning doesn't come across like that to me, sorry. And I have to say, you do delete comments with replies.
- lmm 12y ago
  People respond to incentives; the whole point of HN karma is to incentivize people to increase it. So I don't think we can blame people for deleting downvoted comments (when they tend to lose more karma if they don't)
jacquesm 12y ago
Nothing wrong with his name (or his comments).
- logicallee 12y ago
  how do you read 'angersock'? To me the plain reading is "an online persona distinct from one's usual persona; and one which has an extremely angry tone." I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments.
  - angersock 12y ago
    Your reading is correct...unfortunately, my early posts actually did better than expected, and I seem to have become the mask, so to speak. I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments. That's the nicest thing anybody's said about me all week. :)
    - logicallee 12y ago
      well, I've seen a lot of great posts where I wished 'angersock' would change his name. I am sure they will get visibility under a more neutral name as well, and you can always put in your profile that you had posted under angersock.
      - oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
        Honest question: when you read a comment, do you read the comment first, or the username? Because - and I realise it's difficult to judge 100% accurately - I think I always read the comment first, and often don't even glance at the username. And the styling seems to encourage that too. Would it really be as crazy as it sounds, in the interest of promoting discussion above all else, to just hide usernames altogether?
      - jacquesm 12y ago
        I don't think they'll get more visibility at all. A name is but a sequence of letters, angersock to me does not mean more or less than logicallee and I'll read both of you with equal interest. Of course other people might have a different set of criteria but the reputation of a person should be the sum of their output and interactions, not <= 10 alpha characters picked from a limited set. And what better story than someone who enters a forum under a moniker like that and decides to change his ways. Beats the alternative!

Repeatedly breaking threads by deleting your comments after there are replies is worse. So is threatening to delete your comments over down votes.

logicallee 12y ago
I delete comments to keep the site clean and on-topic, and not too argumentative. It's not 'threatening to delete my comments over downvotes' it's 'agreeing to withdraw a comment if it's too controversial.' (i.e. downvotes, no replies.) Not every thought needs to be voiced. Also, your feedback may have been better directed to my email, I do list one. An example of where I recently deleted a comment was in response to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569545 where my opinion was actively solicited. However, I decided that the reply to it sent the thread in a wrong direction, and also could be read without my reply. I looked instead for the person's email who had asked, but he didn't list one so I ended up deleting my comment. In effect I was saying that on reflection I chose not to comment on the linked essay in that thread.
- maxerickson 12y ago
  Well, your reasoning doesn't come across like that to me, sorry. And I have to say, you do delete comments with replies.
lmm 12y ago
People respond to incentives; the whole point of HN karma is to incentivize people to increase it. So I don't think we can blame people for deleting downvoted comments (when they tend to lose more karma if they don't)

jacquesm 12y ago

Nothing wrong with his name (or his comments).

logicallee 12y ago
how do you read 'angersock'? To me the plain reading is "an online persona distinct from one's usual persona; and one which has an extremely angry tone." I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments.
- angersock 12y ago
  Your reading is correct...unfortunately, my early posts actually did better than expected, and I seem to have become the mask, so to speak. I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments. That's the nicest thing anybody's said about me all week. :)
  - logicallee 12y ago
    well, I've seen a lot of great posts where I wished 'angersock' would change his name. I am sure they will get visibility under a more neutral name as well, and you can always put in your profile that you had posted under angersock.
    - oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
      Honest question: when you read a comment, do you read the comment first, or the username? Because - and I realise it's difficult to judge 100% accurately - I think I always read the comment first, and often don't even glance at the username. And the styling seems to encourage that too. Would it really be as crazy as it sounds, in the interest of promoting discussion above all else, to just hide usernames altogether?
    - jacquesm 12y ago
      I don't think they'll get more visibility at all. A name is but a sequence of letters, angersock to me does not mean more or less than logicallee and I'll read both of you with equal interest. Of course other people might have a different set of criteria but the reputation of a person should be the sum of their output and interactions, not <= 10 alpha characters picked from a limited set. And what better story than someone who enters a forum under a moniker like that and decides to change his ways. Beats the alternative!