billme

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Comment · 6 years ago

Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable and given that’s not a good fit for me, this will be my last post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441542

Comment · 6 years ago

Okay, understand; unfortunately that means I will just stop posting on HN, since I neither have the desire to have “an identity” on HN, nor do I intend to disregard any guidelines. Thanks for all the work you do to keep HN running, please don’t take this personally, understand and agree with your position, just not good fit for me. Cheers!

Comment · 6 years ago

Thanks, wasn’t aware either of them intentionally linked ADs to public comment threads.

Have any notable examples?

Comment · 6 years ago

Thanks, agree that’s a typo; unfortunately I am unable to fix it since editing is now locked, but appreciate you taking the time to point it out.

Comment · 6 years ago

Downvotes per item are limited to -4 and the signal-to-noise ratio for negative votes beyond pushing them below the “new comment” boost is of little positive impact in filtering content, in my opinion.

And yes, there a lot of filters in place for upvotes, many of which are intentionally kept secret.

Personally, I don’t use downvotes.

Comment · 6 years ago

https://lobste.rs/about

And history:

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Comment · 6 years ago

Per the login page:

“Not a user yet? Signup is by invitation only to combat spam and increase accountability. If you know a current user of the site [1], ask them for an invitation or request one in chat [2].”

[1] https://lobste.rs/u/

[2] https://lobste.rs/chat

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Related comment on the history of lobste.rs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441470

Comment · 6 years ago

Related link, leader list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Direct link to top users by rep:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

(tptacek’s comments are super useful and extremely knowledgeable)

Comment · 6 years ago

Agree, I personally feel this is a major issue, in fact recently posted twice about it:

Ask HN: HN user ghosted 5 years, why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436276

Ask HN: Dark Patterns on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439617

Comment · 6 years ago

Here’s a mod’s recent comment on feature requests to give some context on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062

Comment · 6 years ago

Related top level comment in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440929

Comment · 6 years ago

For related prior discussion:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+are+posting+too+fast%...

Comment · 6 years ago

Nothing stopping any user from creating posts related to an aspect of the content on any of those ADs, but it’s obvious allowing comments for ADs would potentially cause unneeded overhead for the advertiser; clearly if any YC advertisers want to post on HN, they’re free to do so within the guidelines on HN.

HN doesn’t block negative posts about YC companies.

Comment · 6 years ago

Sure, read all the comments by dang (aka HN’s main mod) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239164

Comment · 6 years ago

My experience is the post without URLs, but say 10 upvotes are generally of lower quality than URL related posts with 10 upvotes. Not sure why this is, but I was forced to speculate, URL post intend tend to be by an expert on a topic and while non-URL post tend to be seeking experts; again, just speculation, might be wrong.