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> He gets asked where he "summers" and then walks out confused.

Anyone cares to explain that one?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082318 and marked it off-topic.

Why is it off-topic? In my ~7 years on HN, I've only had comments detached as "off-topic" twice, both times in the past week and by you. Is HN just getting more heavy on moderation?

Although your question was well-intentioned, you inadvertently triggered a subthread that had nothing to do with the topic at hand (Product Hunt). Also, the point you were asking for clarification about happened to be made-up bullshit. That term isn't in wide use in SV; rather, the commenter was fabricating things. It would have been better to mark that comment off-topic rather than yours, since the rot started there, but then people would accuse us of censoring criticism of Silicon Valley.

Pretty sure the twice in one week thing is just randomness doing its usual. The intention behind HN moderation is to keep it pretty steady.

Thanks, dang. I know the moderation was most likely a coincidence and not some kind of personal vendetta or my commenting getting worse, but I couldn't help but wonder.

I believe that SV, with all its flaws, is as close to meritocracy as it gets (after professional sports?) and was really just wondering what "summers" meant.

No, I'm pretty sure sctb is a little to heavy-handed with this off-topic detachment bullshit.

He also detached my comment in which I responded directly to a statement that somebody made, but not the statement itself which. Both my comment and the statement were about the same exact thing.

Original statement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064089

My response - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064489

It's not always obvious where to snip those threads, and yes, you have a point about that one. Whatever point you had, though, you more than ruined with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100359. That's the kind of thing that will get you banned here, regardless of how good your point was.

So, how about we be a bit more careful about snipping threads, and you be a bit more careful about following https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html?

Edit: I see that we've had to warn you several times before. If you don't want to be banned, you need to change your ways on HN. I'm not going to ban you in this case because the proximate cause was something we did. But the pattern is something you need to work on.

I assume you're asking for an explanation of what "summers" or "summering" means.

The basics of it are those with wealth can afford to spend weeks/months away from the place they call "home". They can also afford to drop their work commitments, or otherwise force those around them to conform to their wishes.

With that in mind, wealthy people from New York are known to "summer" in the Hamptons. Well off retirees will also migrate from Florida to New York / Maine depending on the season, which is akin to "summering". I'm not from the west coast so I'm not sure where people from the bay area go to "summer" -- I would assume Napa Valley.

By asking someone where they "summer" you are asking about their socioeconomic status.

Never really been a thing around here from my experience, and I grew up in Alamo, surrounded by the type of people who would happily flaunt a summer home. Second properties are usually in Tahoe or southern California somewhere, maybe Hawaii. I know a few people who have done the whole Napa thing and started their own labels of varying quality, but that's less common.

Summering/Wintering is more of an East Coast thing where there is crappy weather during those seasons. Northern California has never had to have that tradition for itself, where people are more likely to have a "cabin," or vacation house.

Yeah, the whole thing seem to be about going somewhere that has weather your home doesn't have. In norcal that means snow.

Sure, but Tahoe/snow residences are mostly called cabins and at any rate most people don't spend the whole season there so much as use it as home base when skiing or spending weekends and occasional weeks there.

Yes, the differences (and lack of, really) "summering culture" is something I acknowledged in the first sentence of my earlier comment.

While I don't agree with the comment, it is referencing the fact that very wealthy people often go to a summer estate or some destination. Thus, someone who responds with a known wealthy summer hot spot is identifiable as coming from a certain level of wealth.

The parent was then taking that a step further and insinuating that a VC might casually ask about this and lose interest in the person unless they come from wealth.

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