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   by boltonia 4y ago

   About a month after they bumped him off, they extorted Quora, in which Y combinator is an investor, into banning him (and of course lying about why they did so).
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   by boltonia 4y ago

   The ban itself is not so much an issue as (a) the chilling effect on other contributors who are still here, (b) the collateral damage on Dan/Paul’s vendetta, like when the whole country of Thailand was banned for three days, and (c) th
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   by boltonia 4y ago

   The issue isn’t that MOC is gone, because who cares if we lose one contributor, or how much on an apology (if any) Dan owes him. It’s that we can’t trust HN’s moderation not to keep doing what they did to him, which is spend over a year try
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   by boltonia 4y ago

   I’m posting anonymously because I have a justified lack of trust in HN’s moderation and don’t want to face retaliation for pointing out something inconvenient. I’ll admit that I’ve only been following MOC for the past few years, which seems
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   Ask HN: Shouldn’t Michael O. Church be unbanned by now?

   9 points by boltonia 4y ago|10 comments