Hacker News Reader

Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Please read the rules at the top. This comment breaks them. Also, we've already had to ask you to please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait. If you keep doing that we will have to ban you.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867220 and marked it off-topic.

View on HN

I don't recall ever having someone ask me not to post something. Is there an inbox or something or is it all reply based? I get "flagged" sometimes, but that just means someone pushed the "flag" button right? I thought posts were just deleted when they reached -1.

EDIT: Now this post and the grandparent post have had their points reduced. So, now I'm super confused - if this post had been detached from the main thread, who is downvoting it? Do the mods have abilities to see (and vote) on threads removed from users with lower access rights? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm not sure I understand how the comment system works really.

EDIT EDIT: OK now I understand how detached works, thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20672819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20365483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358881

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15847660

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15628637

Detached means it appears as a free-standing comment, generally towards the bottom the comments. It doesn't make the comment disappear. People can still see them. Some people use the new comments thread to view comments as opposed to viewing from the front page. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments)

As for your first question, it looks like 'dang replied to one of your comments a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20663642

Ah I see. Thanks.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com