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by tomhow 7mo ago
Previously... Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468600 - Jan 2026 (248 comments) POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - https://news.ycombi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't post off-topic flamebait on HN. The guidelines ask us to avoid this: Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain ab
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> HN has long been a site dominated by Zionists Please don't poison HN with unfounded assertions like this. HN has never been "dominated" by any one group or ideology. HN is a large sample of people around the world who s
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't comment like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for much better than this here... Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. When disagreeing, p
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by tomhow 7mo ago
I was wondering what “moderation practices” related to this story they thought warranted people having a worse opinion of HN moderation? It's unlikely they were referring to automated spam filters.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please just email us (hn@ycombinator.com) when something like this happens. Moderators didn't see these submissions or if we did, we didn't know why this project or incident was significant or important. Now we've seen it, we
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> raise awareness about HN moderation practices What practices?
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Moderators didn't see it, and our policy is the precise opposite of this – see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... or, for more color, https://hn.algolia.com/?dat
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319 , which appears to have been the first submission of the link.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't engage in ideological battle on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo 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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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
This kind of comment is unacceptable on HN. It breaches these guidelines... 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
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445836 and marked it off topic.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432779 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> I don't find it interesting That's fine. Nothing on HN is of interest to everyone. But the post spent 20 hours on the front page and earned over 450 upvotes and 300 comments. It was clearly interesting to a lot of the communi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't introduce an isolated tragedy to engage in ideological battle. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htm
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by tomhow 7mo 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 7mo ago
There's an valid debate to be had how everyone/anyone can be employable in the emerging world, but we can talk about it in less callous terms. The HN guidelines start with an appeal to "be kind", and flamebait is explici
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by tomhow 7mo ago
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don’t post snarky, shallow dismissals or use internet tropes on HN. I explained thought process we went through. Nothing on HN is to everyone’s taste. Plenty of people are finding this post interesting and having a good discussion ab
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Yes, which is why some of the comments are from a day ago but the post is only a couple of hours old. We originally downranked it due to being AI-generated. But on reflection and discussion with the author, we decided that enough HN users m
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431237 .
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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That was me sorry! I was quickly fixing it up while a meeting was starting, and I hurriedly re-typed it rather than copying+pasting like I should always do with project names.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Thanks! Here's the full set: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38097031 - Nov 2023 (259 comments) Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) - https://news.ycombin
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals or flamebait 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 7mo ago
> facts don't matter that much when you suffer from EDS Please don't post flamebait or call names on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please omit internet tropes on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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