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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please email us about cases like this rather than posting a comment. That way we'll see it sooner and can take action more promptly. I've put the original article's URL in the top text. Other commenters in the subthread seem
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account. We've asked you several times to observe the guidelines, but things are only getting worse.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
The point is that when your position is presented with these hyperbolic barbs and this enraged tone, it closes off the opportunity for discussion rather than opening it, and erases any opportunity for a curious conversation. This is a theme
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249387 .
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> The very same people who would be flagging that comment wouldn't bat an eye at saying they won't read or support anything by folks like DHH You have no way of knowing that. The guidelines against off-topic controversy and gen
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> My comment is meant as a conversation starter more than anything Sure, but the guidelines ask: Please don't fulminate... Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. Please don't use Hacker News for po
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> I think that this is ridiculous > plainly false > the idea that this idea cannot possibly be worth discussion or inspection is outrageous This is not curious conversation.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Previously: The Rust calling convention we deserve - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081314 - April 2024 (137 comments)
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by tomhow 8mo ago
I replied to the other commenter before I replied to you and made it clear that attacks on fellow community members with insults about mental health are not acceptable. YC's privacy policy and instructions for requesting data removal c
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't comment like this, no matter what it's replying to. Please email us (hn@ycombinator.com) if you see suspicious activity. We are addressing this users' pattern of commenting privately.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account. HN is not the place for this kind of rhetoric, and looking down your comment history, there is a recurring pattern of this kind of comments that we can't allow to continue.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
If your first comment in the subthread wasn't escalatory enough, this phrase in your second comment was way out of line: > Surely you're not just talking out of your ass It's not cool to start a flamewar like this then cal
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> Take your meds > I genuinely think you're having a mental health episode It's not acceptable to post like this on HN. It counts as name-calling, snark, flamebait and other breaches of the guidelines. We're trying for
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't make grand sweeping proclamations on HN. We're here for curious conversation. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/new
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't post drive-by snark on HN. We're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Previously... An interactive intro to CRDTs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764581 - Oct 2023 (130 comments)
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> Safe is an absolute term Safe is generally a gradable adjective [1], though can be non-gradable in certain contexts (like programming). We are getting into the weeds though, aren't we? [1] https://learnenglish.britishco
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Can we discuss the issue without being accusatory and interrogatory. The point of the guidelines (about titles and everything else) is so we can discuss things curiously, without getting riled up. OK I've looked in the logs and here&#x
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We just updated the title to “Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns”.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Terms like "hidden" and "see everything" are in a title are clickbait. That's why the title would have been changed. I've changed it again to match the article's original title, removing the clickbait part
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214864 .
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
You can't characterize other HN users as "evil", no matter who it is or what they've written. Please consider stepping away from HN for a while, rather than continuing to post like this. We have to ban accounts that con
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> You are fucking nuts. WTF? You cannot comment like this on HN, no matter who you are replying to or what it's about. HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to raise the standards rather
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We need you to stop with this style of commenting, or we'll have to ban the account. HN is for curious conversation, not for this kind of ideological battle and inflammatory rhetoric. We want this to be a place where difficult topics c
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by tomhow 8mo ago
This is in breach of the HN guidelines. Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn
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by tomhow 8mo ago
A large proportion of the software that runs HN exists to detect inorganic activity. It's quite obvious to us when significant numbers of comments are made in support of a particular agenda by new accounts or old accounts without regul
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by tomhow 8mo ago
If you are sincere about contributing positively to the healthy functioning of this site, you will include evidence when you make a claim like this. If "Dan G has said" something like this, you will be able to share a link to a co
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by tomhow 8mo ago
In another comment thread yesterday, I pointed out an effect I’ve observed, which is that people are less likely to notice or feel negatively towards LLM-generated content if they like it or agree with it. That’s just a reality of human psy

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