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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, or post snarkily on inflammatory topics. Those are not effective ways to make your case, and they poison the community (such as it is).

Also, please don't edit your comments in a way that misleads readers after the fact—especially when the misleading thing is making other comments look bad because their original context is gone. That's not a nice thing to do.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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> Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar,

it was a fair comment

hey by the way, how many comments or posts do you make completely disappear each day? I have seen one so far

I'm not sure "fair comment" is a sufficient test here.

> how many comments or posts do you make completely disappear each day?

Zero. Except in cases where the author of a post asks us to.

I have seen a post 1 minute old disappear... when I would view the ID, it would be a blank page (and I have showdead enabled)

Also, why do you allow Tor signups if you are going to hide all of their posts?

I know that you hide all of my posts too... and block me from posting links with this stupid message: https://imgur.com/5cVIRcq.png

We never delete comments outright unless the author asks us to*, and even in that case you would have seen [deleted], not a blank page. If you saw a blank page, then there was a bug, either at your end or ours.

Your posts are autokilled because your account is banned. Your account was banned by a software filter that categorized it as a troll account. Either you've had many accounts that have been banned in the past for breaking HN's guidelines, or there is a bug in our software.

When an account has an established history on HN, we tell people we're banning them and why. But when a user responds to that by creating an entire series of accounts and continuing to break HN's rules, eventually we start shadowbanning them.

* There have been a handful of exceptions for legal reasons over the years, perhaps half a dozen or so.

And you limit banned account from posting even though you hide everything they post... there are so many ridiculous rules that it is hard to keep track.

Also, when we click showdead, we want to see them... why do you make the text almost the same color as the background??

I have to select the text to be able to see it... just another ridiculous rule...

If you click on a comment's timestamp to go to its page, you should be able to read the comment in normal text.

Would it be ok if I published all post titles that were modified, posts & comments that were deleted/hidden on a third party website? (in other words, would you ban me for looking up that information? because I know that you would make up a great dictator)

https://imgur.com/yggna1A.png

Plenty of people have already done such things. It's more likely to succeed if you do it out of curiosity.

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