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by tomhow 6mo ago
Repeatedly posing questions prefaced with “Can we agree...” comes across as a bit too much like cross-examination, and the guidelines specifically ask us not to cross-examine. It doesn't matter if a snarky dismissal has some basis in r
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by tomhow 6mo ago
I'm the moderator who changed the title, which is a routine action. That doesn't mean the post itself is inappropriate for HN. > allowing this kind of posting only works against the HN HN is for curious conversation between goo
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by tomhow 6mo ago
Please don't post snarky dismissals like this 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 6mo ago
Thanks, Macroexpanded, and some others too... Fuck the Cloud (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771539 - Dec 2015 (219 comments) Fuck the cloud (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by tomhow 6mo ago
Previously... The Mouse Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41400380 - Aug 2024 (14 comments)
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by tomhow 6mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 6mo 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 tomhow 6mo ago
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756259 and marked it off topic.
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by tomhow 6mo ago
We've banned this account. Looking at the account's history going back more than two years, several of the comments are abusive and inflammatory, which is clearly in breach of the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by tomhow 6mo ago
It’s a lame trope that people only comment favorably about things because they have a financial incentive or some other pathological reason to do so, and for that reason it’s against the guidelines.
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by tomhow 6mo ago
Please avoid these kinds of sneers that characterize the whole community as being united in “hate” or “love” for any particular company or technology. HN is a diverse global community and its views about most topics form a normal distributi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> We'd have never progressed as a species with your mentality. Please avoid swipes like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideline
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by tomhow 7mo ago
The guidelines ask us to avoid being curmudgeonly. I'm sure you didn't mean to come across that way, but could you try not to make Hacker News the kind of place that responds with “meh” to a successful space mission?
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't fulminate. Please don't
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by tomhow 7mo ago
You were asked to keep to the guidelines just a few weeks ago, particularly relating to making swipes at the community, and you committed to doing so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243319 . We wouldn't be havin
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't. We have to ban accounts that do this repeatedly.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don’t try to deflect from your own disrespectful conduct with this kind of “are you going to...?” goading. We don’t moderate on the basis of such charged qualitative judgments as “fake news”. We uphold the guidelines. If someone is w
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> Ah, the classic "aPpLe cAn dO nO wRoNg" comment from a thread full of nothing but Apple lovers. Hey, this is an awful comment from someone who has been on HN long enough to know better. That random capitalization thing is a c
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Hey, this kind of defiant strutting is not cool. It's fine to disagree with the article, and you don't owe the author anything, but you owe this community better if you want to participate here. HN is only a place where people lik
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don’t post sneering dismissals of imagined arguments on HN. We’re trying for curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
WTF? This is not an acceptable comment on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. This style of commenting is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.yco
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by tomhow 7mo ago
That isn't always a simple, reliable way of finding the historical submissions of the article. Sometimes it's on a domain that has had many other submissions. Sometimes the domain has changed or the content appears in different fo
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by tomhow 7mo ago
It's not a reproach at all! We do this all the time when something has appeared before on HN, so that people can look at older threads if they're interested. It's significant signal that a particular post has appeared repeate
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Of course, and part of my reason for being brought onto the team full time is to explore ways we can develop HN for the future. That doesn't mean that every 3rd-party HN project represents a feature that should be added to the core HN
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Previously... They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 - May 2025 (3 comments) They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We've banned this account. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668579 and marked off-topic.

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