mike_tan

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by mike_tan 14y ago
I know who Paul Graham is. >Flags are not used as downvotes I'm not as certain about that.
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by mike_tan 14y ago
>You submissions aren't being censored. Ordinary, everyday members of HN are flagging them as not adding value. If you spent some time here learning about these things you'd understand the dynamics better, but after our discussion on th
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by mike_tan 14y ago
The submission is going to get censored, even if there is a proportion of people interested in talking about the topic. It's a shame, but there's no point in talking about it.
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by mike_tan 14y ago
" 14 hours ago you registered your username 7 hours ago you submitted an item that appears to have been flagged off the front page * 2 hours ago you submit an item about how unfair that is, and how everyone should have instantly realised
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by mike_tan 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685907
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by mike_tan 14y ago
"Let me summarise what I think you're saying: * You saw value in it. * A few others clearly saw value in it. * Still others saw it as having negative value. * The ones who thought it had negative value flagged it. * They should not have don
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by mike_tan 14y ago
I would hope -- but this isn't going to happen, by the looks of it -- that people would see the discussion and then not call out posts as being "pointless" or hype, or like Reddit, or link-bait, just because it's not to their particular lik
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by mike_tan 14y ago
>don't just submit raw data and expect everyone instantly to agree that it's interesting and of value. It was of value. People were taking action over the data. You may not be looking to start a business, or do projects: (To quote you f
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by mike_tan 14y ago
You edited your reply. > Colin has very patiently reasoned with you about what may have happened And I patiently reasoned back. It's a discussion. Yes, he has been somewhat helpful, but it doesn't explain how, a seemly increasing, numbe
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by mike_tan 14y ago
"Pointless hipster-TLD is pointless. Utterly pointless." So pointless that GitHub and codepen.io use them. edit: You edited your reply...
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by mike_tan 14y ago
>If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen. Or a moderator. Or something else that's nixing
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by mike_tan 14y ago
> is there anything there of interest to hackers? Really? codepen.io and card.io (who got acquired by Paypal) may disagree. Or people using them for "playfully clever" things -- to use a term I've heard Richard Stallman use to define ha
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by mike_tan 14y ago
The point is, it seems to only take one person to vehemently object. > complaints aren't justified properly rather than there aren't a sufficient number of them it's not that they aren't "justified properly", it's that they aren't jus
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by mike_tan 14y ago
Can I ask you a question, Colin. Do you think the subject of domains is against hacker culture, or anti-startup in any way?
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by mike_tan 14y ago
> It doesn't take many flags from ordinary users to get an item off the front page. Flags carry a heavy penalty, and it seems that just three or four will take an item a long way down the rankings. If one person points out that they thi
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Ask HN: How can a single person objecting get a post moved from the front page?
7 points by mike_tan 14y ago|29 comments
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.io domains with 3 letters remaining(pastebin.com)
27 points by mike_tan 14y ago|46 comments
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Your Bitcoins Are Finally Worth Something(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mike_tan 14y ago|0 comments