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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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Please don't post snark 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. This style of participation is obviously not what HN is for and we've asked you before not to post like this.
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Please don't post snarky flamebait like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. We'd hope that HN users can countenance that water for people and water for growing food (for people) ar
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> Your idea is 'i heard about desert avocadoes on tiktok and its insane and whoever does it needs machine-gunned.'. Please don't post this kind of denunciatory rhetoric on HN. It sounds like you have interesting historical
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Previously... Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39774253 - March 2024 (238 comments) Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) - https://news.ycombin
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I've replied to them now with the same appeal. But someone else's breach of the guidelines doesn't excuse your own. Rather than escalating when you see a bad comment, you'd be better to flag the comment, or email us (hn@
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Please don't post ideological 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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Earlier this year... There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847297 - Feb 2026 (52 comments) (I’ve turned off duplicate detection due to the significance of the date.)
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Please stop using HN for self-promotion. It's specifically against the guidelines and we have to ban all accounts and domains that engage in it, which we've done now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htm
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Please note the rules at the top of the thread: Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards
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Please stop attributing false quotes and sentiments to us. The approach we take is necessarily tailored to each case, because each case is different. We spend far more time, effort and care to address these requests than it would take to si
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The particulars matter a lot in this particular case.
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The problem is that each case is different, and there's no one approach that would cover all of the cases. Indeed I can see that it doesn't actually address the concern in this case, now that I've been able to find out what t
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The main issue was that it was submitted late Friday night SF time, meaning it was overnight or Saturday everywhere in the world when the post had its chance on the front page. The flagging was minimal relative to the vote count and had no
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Its visibility was diminished due to the flamewar detector and most of its front page time being during overnight hours on Friday night/Saturday morning USA time. I've created a new copy to give it some primetime exposure, because
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> The ability to disown a specific set of content We are willing to do this. > Requesting anything more results in them saying “oh yes, we respect users wishes, blah, blah” and no action We gladly work with users to redact any materia
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It wasn't heavily flagged. It was pulled down by the flamewar detector due to the large number of comments, and it slid under the radar due to only hitting the front page during overnight hours on Friday night/Saturday morning. It
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The guidelines ask: Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Many people from all sections of HN, the tech industry and
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> It seems like you’re more concerned about keeping threads from years ago coherent than you are about my wishes and safety. This is obviously not true. We care about thread persistence and coherence as a default, because some of HN&#x27
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We go to great effort to find the right balance between a user's need for privacy and the community/public benefit in keeping threads intact and coherent (moving every one of a user's comments to a different username makes th
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My email is the same as Dan's. hn@ycombinator.com. Yes you can forward it and I'll read it straight away. We can't necessarily do the exact things you've asked, because it makes all the discussion threads you participate
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GDPR doesn't require that a participant on a discussion forum be able to erase their entire history. Article 17(3) covers this. It is reasonable for a user to ask that their posts be anonymized.
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> dang told me “tough luck” He (nor I) would never write that or anything like it. What we always say is that we aim to find a compromise between a user's wish for their entire history to be erased and the rest of the community&#x27
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We are never rude or obstinate like this. We will always do whatever we can to protect people's privacy, which we do by redacting PII and moving posts to anonymized accounts.
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We take users' privacy seriously and have had a consistent policy for years. If anyone is worried about personally identifying information, we're always happy to redact the PII and reassign comments/posts to an anonymous acco
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We've banned this account. Please don't post AI-generated text or combative, fulminatory comments here. People who have something substantive to contribute can do so in the spirit of curious conversation, which is what HN is for.
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Please don't post ideological 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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Ok fair enough. I think it was late at night when I saw that and my sarcasm radar was shutting down. But it’s best to avoid sarcasm here because it’s usually snarky and we always want to avoid snark, even if the comment you’re replying to i
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We’ve banned this account. This isn’t the place for you, thanks.

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