tomhow

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Show threadtomhowMar 22
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.
Show threadtomhowMar 22

Please just email us ([email protected]) 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've boosted the first submission of the incident onto the front page, and updated the URL and title to the most up-to-date/complete page about the incident.

The reason the submissions were being killed is that the GitHub account's address had been banned on HN due to previously being submitted by spam bots.

Show threadtomhowMar 22

> raise awareness about HN moderation practices

What practices?

Show threadtomhowMar 19

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.html

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Show threadtomhowMar 12
The content is inaccessible and I can't find any cached copy, so I'm burying this for now. Will restore if/when there's an accessible source.
Show threadtomhowDec 6
”Someone is wrong on the internet” can get you surprisingly far.
tomhowDec 5

WTF? We can't have you sneering at/about fellow community members like this, no matter how much (or little) karma they have. This comment breaks multiple guidelines, notably:

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 topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals...

Someone doesn't get to 400k karma (almost double the second-ranked user) without contributing a lot of value to the community over a long time.

It's fine to disagree with someone, of course. There'd be nothing to discuss otherwise. But we need you to engage with the substance of the comments you're replying to, and not sneeringliy attack somone's character or motivations like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 and marked it off topic.

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