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by tomhow 6mo ago
People (and bots) who think HN is the place to “promote their products” don't understand HN (though, as you note, that belief is is widespread and is having an acute effect on our inbox!) Show HN is for showing a cool project you'
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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This is a site for curious people who want to have intelligent discussions about interesting topics. My job here is to uphold the guidelines, not engage in political arguments. If your response to my moderation effort is to invoke a whole l
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Please don't, in one comment, call me “naive and childish” then try this kind of switcheroo the next. The topic of “guillotines” relates to performative violence against fellow citizens over political/economic disagreement. Nation
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On this site we want interesting new ideas, not humanity's most primitive urges replayed over and over again.
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All good, thanks for the thoughts.
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If you’re trying to make the case that “sometimes violence is the only answer”, please stop. It’s the responsibility of thoughtful people in a civilized society to find ways of solving problems, even very large and deep ones, without violen
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We are not him, he withdrew it immediately when he woke/sobered up, that was not Hacker News, and the guidelines apply no matter who is posting or what the topic.
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041608 and marked it off topic. Not cool. Other users were perfectly able to respond to the parent with curious conversation. I'm not going to respon
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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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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We've banned this account for posting exclusively political/ideological content and inflammatory comments on HN. That's not OK here, no matter the topic or side.
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Thanks for understanding. I know it can feel like a bummer when your comment was at the top of the thread, getting lots of upvotes and replies, only to see it suddenly buried lower down the thread. The main issue for us is just about releva
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That was an unsubstantive comment, that started a generic tangent, and veers onto the wrong side of these parts of the guidelines: Don't be snarky. Converse curiously Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as
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We've banned this account.
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Please don’t post snark on HN. Gary is, objectively, an AI expert. He’s been a leading researcher for decades and sold an AI company to Uber. He obviously sees things differently from the current generation of AI company leaders and has con
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The only thing that should be surprising to anyone who knows about the early history of OpenAI is how little of it YC owns, given how much it leveraged YC’s credibility to get started (early employees joined an institution called “YC Resear
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> is a million times better than the tyranny and destruction of the eurojihadi Zelensky Could you please not post in this style on HN. It's fine to argue against the dominant view, and we've already banned someone else in this
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We've banned this account. It's always been against the guidelines to engage in political or ideological battle on HN, and repeatedly posting slurs about an entire nation is never acceptable here. It's one thing to critique a
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Yes... unless we think it's fine to tailor a title to activate a particular reaction from the HN audience :)
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The guidelines require using the same title on HN as is on the original post.
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting comments that break the guidelines and seem LLM-generated.
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They can't do this most of the time because for most of the year on most routes, supply outstrips demand (i.e., many/most flights on most airlines fly at least a little bit empty, often significantly empty – overall load factors a
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152 .
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Just a few days ago: “Regardless, it's acceptable here to mock climate deniers, capitalists (landlords, CEOs, Billionaires), SUV or truck drivers, religious fundamentalists, various flavors of conservatives…” [1] Both these positions a
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by tomhow 6mo ago
Please don't post like this on HN. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979300 and marked it off topic.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962269 .
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It’s the reaction of the audience that matters, not what happened on your device that nobody can see. If the writing ends up being the same as what you would produce if you carefully edited it yourself, it will be well received. If it shows
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It's against the guidelines to do this. The community much prefers you write in your own voice, even if your English is imperfect. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This is a good example of why post summaries are considered off-topic on HN. If it becomes the top comment (which it often does if people agree with it or are riled up by it) they'll reply to the summary rather than posting their repli

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