Getting used to Software Half-Assery

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On a popular discussion website, I was wondering why my submission links no longer were upvoted, and commented to. Was my stuff suddenly not interesting anymore? I tried looking at the site from my mobile phone, and noticed that my submission wasn't visible. It was only there when I was logged in. So clearly, someone shadow banned me.

When is HN going to retire this juvenile practice?

As for the rest of the post, yeah, self-driving cars are coming real soon now. What happened to the old joke about if Microsoft made a car, would you ride in it? Seems we forgot what the assumed answer was.

When is HN going to retire this juvenile practice?

Is this a general comment or in reference to the article specifically? It's not clear to me that they're referring to HN. In particular, from what it looks like the submitter is the author of the post. If that's the case, this submission wouldn't show up, right? Or am I missing something?

Didn't do forensics on author/submitter. But the parts I didn't quote mentioned up/down arrows and other things that sure sounded like HN to me. Finally, AFAIK, HN is the only one that fits that description (though I'll admit to a wide swath of ignorance related to social media in general).

OTOH, it is also a general comment whether the author is referring to HN or not. It always struck me as something that you'd find on, say, 4chan.

Gotcha. I just noticed that the HN username matched the domain of the submission. When I read the up/down arrows on what I understood to be submissions (not comments), I specifically thought it wasn't HN given it has only up (and flag). That said, I'm not that familiar with other forums and am perhaps reading that part of the submission too closely.

Think it is bad for you, think what it is like for people to know less about computers.

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