[flagged][dead] so I vouched for it. Hope you get some help. I try and keep a spare account going for times like this but it's not always possible or convenient.
I was even able to use WhatsApp while abroad and my sim card not working for a month, it might be only needed for setting up WhatsApp once at the start and then swap the card.
[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...
From the perpective of the guy who posted it, everything's kosher, just nobody's replying for some reason. From the perspective of everyone else in the forum there's no post.
Ostensibly a way of managing spam while depriving the spammer of informative feedback. In practice a method of censorship with extra "screw you" on top.
Some of us express our disagreement with a reply by downvoting and flagging.
HN responds to that by rendering your reply progressively invisible. Throttling your speech. Shadow removal. And shadow ban. (While avoiding responsibility for the censorship, if you see what I mean)
I wish the throttling error would at least tell you when you are able to post again.
Just like not exaplaining reasons for banning what's app account, makin vague TOS, keeping salaries secret, it's the antithesys of a fair and just society.
If anything is an epidemic, it's posts like this one. Sure, each of them has a small chance of being useful to a single individual. At the same time, it's reducing the usefulness of this site for tens or hundreds of thousands. And the more they're encouraged with upvoting and vouching, the more of them will be posted.
I'm tired of billion dollar companies that have achieved their scale by literally hooking us on their free services and have zero interest in us as real people, and then don't give a flying fuck if their shitty automated processes decide to unperson someone.
Then, perchance, we should be using the collective will to name and shame companies so that the source of these posts stops.
The fact that modern companies have taken Kafka's "The Trial" as a playbook instead of a warning is beyond infuriating.
It is unlikely that any count of HN posts will change Facebook's behavior.
The attempt to convert HN into your personal megaphone will, however, ruin HN.
> If anything is an epidemic, it’s posts like this one.
That right there is a good reason to encourage it rather than discourage it, because it indicates a market need. This is exactly the forum to discuss how to address market needs, especially when it comes to cloud services and software, right? I hope, but also expect, that if posts like these get more popular, we will see some actual competition and the problem will begin to rectify itself, which will naturally cause these kinds of threads to diminish. If we suppress these conversations, it may take longer than if we allow it to reach public consciousness.
Just waiting for the inevitable next round of Congressional "What are you going to do about these issues?/Oh we're definitely going to read these legal department-prepared statements that vaguely suggest that we're possibly maybe definitely going to try do something undefined about these issues in the unspecified future."