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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't do this* here. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568492 . * by "this" I mean posting ideological clichés and internet tropes - This is in the site guidelines:
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by dang 4mo ago
I counted about 20 comments on political topics and 4 on others. That's plainly on the wrong side of the "primarily" test. If you want to commit to using the site primarily for intellectual curiosity and only secondarily for
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by dang 4mo ago
Ah! - but since I didn't move the latter, I couldn't use the h-word. You can't leave something hither, you can only move it.
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by dang 4mo ago
(this and Urgo's comments were posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377493 a week ago, but since that thread didn't get much attention, I've moved them hither)
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by dang 4mo ago
We have no interest in being unfair, and anyone who genuinely wants to use HN as intended should have no trouble getting unbanned. In this context, the test for whether an account is using HN as intended or not is whether it is primarily
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by dang 4mo ago
How is that possible?!
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post aggressively like this? It's against the site guidelines because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html a
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by dang 4mo ago
You can't attack others like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political/ideological/nationalistic battle, which is not what the site is for. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of what they're battling for or against. I&#x2
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological/political/religious battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?so
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by dang 4mo ago
You're assuming moderator omniscience - always a bad bet: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . We don't come close to seeing everything, and every HN user sees things we don
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological/political/religious battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?so
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by dang 4mo ago
Personal attacks aren't acceptable and you've been doing this repeatedly again recently (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522089 ) We've had to ask you many times to stop breaking the site guideline
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks - we've switched the top link to that from https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-era-soviet-union-pic... . Submitters: " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another s
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by dang 4mo ago
You broke the site guidelines here by posting aggressively. Please don't do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account. Please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological/political/religious battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?so
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by dang 4mo ago
Related: Don't Talk to the Police (2012) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317167 - Sept 2025 (2 comments) Don't Talk to the Police - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475416
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555244 . Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, we've moved the comments thither, except the ones that are only relevant to current article.
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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by dang 4mo ago
There have been quite a few threads about it recently - unfortunately I don't have time to dig up links at the moment. (also, 450+ comments is not little notice!)
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by dang 4mo ago
Oh yes! Reposts are welcome after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . We particularly want new cohorts of users to get acquainted with the classics :) When users (or mods) link to pr
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Mechanical Watch (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591084 - Dec 2023 (163 comments) Mechanical Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533 - May 2022 (413
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, we've erinarianed the title above.
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by dang 5mo ago
It was more obvious before you edited the comment (and in principle we appreciate it when people edit their comments to dampen or remove personal attacks), but the bit that begins "Do you live there?" and ends "boot such gaij
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by dang 5mo ago
I can understand the feeling of loyalty to a widely admired figure (and deservedly so!) but this isn't a great way to respond to someone else's work. Unless there's some evidence of ill intent, why not just classify it as an
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by dang 5mo ago
You crossed into personal attack with this comment. That's not allowed here, so please don't. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of

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