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by billme 6y ago
Good bye HN! 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
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by billme 6y 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 d
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by billme 6y ago
Thanks, wasn’t aware either of them intentionally linked ADs to public comment threads. Have any notable examples?
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by billme 6y 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.
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by billme 6y 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 pla
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by billme 6y ago
Related link: https://lobste.rs/about And history: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
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by billme 6y 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.
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by billme 6y 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)
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by billme 6y 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:/&#x2
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by billme 6y 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
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by billme 6y ago
Related top level comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440929
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by billme 6y ago
For related prior discussion: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+are+posting+too+fast%...
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by billme 6y 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 wa
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by billme 6y ago
Sure, read all the comments by dang (aka HN’s main mod) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239164
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by billme 6y 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 wh
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by billme 6y ago
Yes, there’s a lot more upside to comments as a result. Generally voting signal to noise ratio goes: upvote, no-vote, downvote — allowing more downvote would most like have more negative than positive impact on the community.
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by billme 6y ago
Agree, not sure why after X amount of rep is earned something like this is not featured for just for new users, users who haven’t viewed it, etc.
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by billme 6y ago
Related link: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited
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by billme 6y ago
Generally speaking ADs don’t allow comments. Have an example or reasoning why this would make sense?
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by billme 6y ago
Not sure that’s always been true, or at least for sure PG was open about subsets if the code. Generally, there’s reason to open source code, and open sourcing it would likely result in more overhead not less; generally HN goal is to very, v
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by billme 6y ago
Stating the obvious, Reddit was in the first YC batch; YC is HN’s parent company. Further, HN was created in part because Reddit’s intend is more general than HN; HN’s intend is to focus on substantially new information that triggers both c
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by billme 6y ago
Because they are officially sponsored YC related ADs.
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by billme 6y ago
Reasoning is HN’s goal, per dang, is to promote substantially new information — unless the tutorial fits this meaning, it’s less of a priority to feature than those posts that do meet it. Worth noting there’s nothing stopping you from build
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by billme 6y ago
Not surprising last reference I know of it is years old and PG is busy doing other things now.
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by billme 6y ago
Yes, that’s PG’s username, or at least the original & official one, but no, that’s not where it would appear. Here’s example of a prior reference to this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432526
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by billme 6y ago
PG’s phone number used to appear if your rep got high enough, not sure if that’s still a feature.
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by billme 6y ago
Are these the only supported “custom colors” ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432201
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by billme 6y ago
Here’s an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643177
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by billme 6y ago
Right, I am a HN super user. I repeatedly get accounts to 500, then move onto a new account; no reason other than by doing so I am never able to downvote regardless of the desire to do so, let’s me easily benchmark perception of my comments
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by billme 6y ago
I personally use any distro based on the situation. As others have pointed out, common reasoning behind picking a distro include: hardware requirements, existing ecosystems, end user, package management, configurableness, security, long-ter

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