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by sctb 7y ago
We just asked yesterday that you stop the political battle. If you won't stop we'll ban the account, but we'd rather not, so please do stop? > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battl
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by sctb 7y ago
I can tell that this expression is heartfelt and well-meant and that you're making honest points, but when we post comments in combat style this is easily lost in the fog of war. Could you please take this into account when posting in
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by sctb 7y ago
Thanks for tracking down the original source. We've updated the link from https://www.philly.com/news/nation-world/unidentified-flying... .
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by sctb 7y ago
That's an interesting observation, but not true! As far as stories like this go, we do penalize minor release announcements across the board (unless there's something there that gratifies intellectual curiosity), but that's d
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by sctb 7y ago
You've mostly been posting unsubstantive or off-topic comments. Could you please review the guidelines? We ban accounts that won't use the site as intended. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
It's not anywhere near gray, and 5 minutes is no amount of time to draw conclusions. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't submit com
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by sctb 7y ago
You're still breaking the guidelines way too much by posting flamewar-style, so we've banned the account. If you'd like to start using the site as intended and be unbanned please email hn@ycombinator.com.
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by sctb 7y ago
Thanks! Updated.
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by sctb 7y ago
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720832 .
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by sctb 7y ago
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguide
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by sctb 7y ago
You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments and we'll ban the account if it continues. Could you please review the guidelines? The internet has plenty of snark already; we want to hear what thoughtful a
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by sctb 7y ago
We've banned this account for posting mostly unsubstantive comments. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start using the site as intended. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by sctb 7y ago
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
We're banning this account, but please email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to keep participating and we'd be happy to offer some feedback. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
That's more handwaving and name calling than we're here for. Could you please increase the information-to-inflammation ratio when commenting in threads like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
You've been posting a flurry of unsubstantive and flamey comments. Could you please review the guidelines and stop? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720814 and marked it off-topic.
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by sctb 7y ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674966 .
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by sctb 7y ago
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://sec.report/Document/1655210/000162828018014471/beyon... .
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by sctb 7y ago
Thanks. The lite version is nice but we'll go with the canonical version (updated from http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_db08b33213d74c0d498afe6dc04c... ).
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by sctb 7y ago
You can't make personal attacks here. Since we've asked you several times before to please follow the guidelines we've banned the account.
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by sctb 7y ago
Could you please review the guidelines and start following them? You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
Could you please not post combo uncivil-unsubstantive comments? We've asked you already to follow the guidelines so perhaps you could review them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
Your comments have been falling short of the standard of discourse here. Could you please review the guidelines and then follow them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 7y ago
It doesn't matter what you believe. This forum isn't for diminishing and making fun of people. If you post like this again we'll ban the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sctb 8y ago
Indeed. Thanks!
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by sctb 8y ago
Aside: we've removed “Show HN” from the title because it's for stuff you've built.
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by sctb 8y ago
Thanks! The RFC markup is so respectful of text I don't feel bad for updating it from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8452.txt .

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