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Comment by ok_dad | Hacker News Reader

Just wanted to mention this site is cancer for your back button, open it in a new tab.

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I get it, I do, and I'm a good boy around here as much as humanly possible, but this ain't no ordinary level of back-button-evil. There were hundreds of back-button edits. It was quite uncommon and interesting, IMO.

Thanks for what you do here, too, btw.

The question is, at what point does user-hostile site behavior become more than tangential? Surely if, for example, a page contained malware that would warrant at least a mention in the comments. Personally I appreciated your warning.

Interesting, this comment appeared collapsed, although I didn't open this topic before. I guess that was an administrative intervention.

Yep. When that happens without users flagging the comment it doesn't get a [flagged] tag. It's unfortunate, because you can end up temporarily muted from commenting with a history full of nothing but positive-scored unflagged comments and have no idea how you angered the powers-that-be.

True, I did not interact with the page yet (did not scroll, klick or else and uBlock origin activated) and have as of this point 6 back entries in my Firefox-Tab for the page.

Thanks, this comment was very helpful.

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