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by tomhow 4mo ago
Please don't comment like this on HN. We can disagree with people whilst still affording people basic decency; it's a condition of participating here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by tomhow 4mo ago
Please don't post bombastic, inflammatory comments like this on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 4mo ago
We've banned this account for posting a spate of abusive comments in recent days. You've been here long enough to know this is unacceptable, and when users act like this we have to assume they want to be banned. If you don't
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by tomhow 4mo ago
Thanks! We've added it to the thread header.
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by tomhow 4mo ago
Indeed. We're perfectly willing to disable accounts and remove personally identifying information. The only thing we don't do is delete submissions and comments that have replies, because that leads to threads that other users spe
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by tomhow 4mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
When commenting on HN, please don't copy+paste anything from an AI tool (including a translation tool) into the comment field. This is against the guidelines and stirs up negative reactions from fellow community members.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705 - May 2026 (466 comments) Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483340
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Yep I'm a moderator and we're reading all the threads all the time, so we get a sense of the overall sentiment. Yes we read the worst comments because they're the ones that needour attention with respect to account penalties
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We moderate whenever we see guidelines-breaking comments, no matter the topic. Anyone can see that from looking at our comments feeds. What happens to powerful figures in tech or politics makes no difference to my job or life. But this site
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting abusive comments. We've asked you before to observe the guidelines, and the recent trend is getting much worse. When this happens we eventually have to assume you want to be banned.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Several guidelines make it clear that this kind of comment is unwelcome here. Corruption and conspiracies are easy to insinuate, but we need more than insinuations to have intellectually gratifying discussions. https://news.ycomb
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by tomhow 5mo ago
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. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https:/&#x2F
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't do this here. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357123 and marked it off topic.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please stop posting in this style. This is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. Many of your comments break the guidelines, notably these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125816 - Sept 2025 (79 comments) Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery - https://news.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
> You are an idiot Hey, this is not OK on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Could you please not sermonize or act like a demanding customer? We don't, and can't ever, see everything that's posted here, and even if we could it's not appropriate for moderators to adjudicate on the correctness of a
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account. Posting repetitive, snarky, low-substance comments like this is clearly against the guidelines. If you don't want to be banned, you can email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and commit to observing the guideline
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't post snarky comments on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned the account for using HN to pursue a narrow political agenda. HN's purpose is to gratify intellectual curiosity, and the site can only work if submitters post a variety of articles about different topics, rather than
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please stop. Dang has asked you to stop targeting individual users like this, and now I'm asking. It's ugly conduct, and it doesn't even achieve the outcome you want. Indeed it's most likely to achieve the opposite; fixa

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