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by tomhow 3mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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[stub for offtopicness]
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Thanks for understanding! Appreciate the reply.
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929037 and marked it off topic.
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Thanks for understanding. I had un-killed the original comment but it was re-killed by later flags. I've made it un-killable now. The rest of your comment all sounds like great material for a curious conversation about how/whether
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It's fine, indeed great, to express a less common point of view on HN. But could you please not fulminate like this? The guidelines specifically ask us to avoid that, and make it clear we're hoping for something better than this.
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I understand reading it as benign and sincere if you're sympathetic to the sentiment. As someone whose job it is to read the comments all day every day, and whose objective is to keep discussions here as intellectually gratifying as p
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One more comment like this and we'll have to ban the account. You've been warned before, and have continued posting vile, abusive comments. When activity like this continues, we have to assume that you have no interest in being he
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People post critical things about the most powerful people and companies all the time here and we have zero problem with it. What I'm asking for is for people to not post the most obvious, snarky comment, regardless of the topic/t
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Please don't just post the most obvious snarky comment about a given topic. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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Ok, but you need to wait more than a week before asking for the attention of the HN audience again (it really needs at least a couple of months at least, to allow time for a the memory caches to clear), and if friends/related accounts
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I wasn’t even considering banning you, and I agree it’s awful to wish harm on people like that. But this site can only work if we have guidelines and uphold them evenly, and it only makes it harder to help and defend you if you act with con
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It was an awful comment and I've detached the subthread and warned them. But you can't comment like this on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. Please take a moment to review https://news.ycombinator.com&
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908115 and marked it off topic.
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Please stop using HN for ideological battle, or we'll have to ban the account again. You know very well what is and isn't acceptable here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It’s not about you or your projects. You’re not being downweighted or flagged or penalized. Your posts are just not being seen, because the volume has gone up so much and what it takes to stand out from the crowd has changed so much, even i
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The reality is that there are only 30 places on the front page, but there's been a vast increase in how many Show HN posts are trying to get into one of them. Further, HN exposure only has any value if the interestingness level of cont
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HN has changed because the whole technology world has changed. The number of Show HNs submitted has spiked dramatically, and the average level of interestingness/impressiveness/technical depth has changed inversely. Of course we w
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This is not how Cursor got their moment. They built credibility gradually by continuing to develop the product and regularly sharing it in different spaces (Twitter, GitHub, probably elsewhere). If a project has already been on HN and has s
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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We’ve never prevented anyone from scrutinizing/criticizing Flock or any other YC company on HN. That’s actually the first rule of HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by tomhow 3mo ago
We've banned this account. Please stop registering accounts to comment like this. It's a waste of time for you and us.
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Updated, thanks!
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If it's true “in this particular case”, it's true of every other case too, and thus it's not really a substantive assertion. It's just a fact of life that affects everything, and pointing it out in this particular instan
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We appreciate you. Thanks for your contributions here.
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HN is for curious conversation between humans and we have clear guidelines. That’s been unchanged for two decades. Bots, trolls and any other actors using HN in ways that breach the guidelines are banned, often automatically by our software
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Please don’t use HN for ideological battle. You’ve not commented here in over a year (and have posted only 25 comments in a decade, most of them ideologically-flavored), and you now chime in with three inflammatory comments in this one thre
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Please don't post flame bait on HN, including population-wide swipes like “the ignorance of the common human being”. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. It's a hallmark of a low-effort comment that it i

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