Mithaldu

Actually, you know what. Just ban me. This evening on this site has been another wasteful drain and i've barely even posted. I'm changing my email and password to random noise now.

If i felt comfortable discussing that in public i'd already have done so.

My point is that the state of things here is silencing voices who simply stop bothering to post, while you let toxic people and their posts remain after a slap on the wrist.

I have to admit i'm unaware of that case. Got a place that explains it?

I have considered this before even making the post. (I also have considerable experience with these biases because i have for years run a community with thousands of users visiting each day.) I could point out examples, but i don't think that would be productive.

Right now i'm thinking that your bias in perception is that you tend to look mostly at technical topics where there is no opportunity for this kind of rift without going obviously off-topic. (What your perception of HN is is highly determined by which comment threads you look at.)

That consideration is baked into my post. They fall under category 1 as well.

Reading this has made me find words i've been looking for for months now, and maybe you will at least see these, hopefully even think about them:

As an idealistic goal your policies are great. In practice however i find they sorely underestimate the differential in effort required between:

- someone who has to censor their earnest thoughts preemptively to not be censured by you

and

- a troll gleefully dressing up words they know will hurt in dressing nice enough to fly under your radar

You're asking the former to spend a lot more time and work, than it takes the latter, for whom it's a form of playing, a game they enjoy. I don't have a solution, but i think it's true that your policies have a chilling influences on earnest voices and are creating a community where trolls are very loud.

I see you stand strong against people who say the right things with impolite words. Fine, your choice. But honestly, the more i watch these things the more i notice that you NEVER stand as strong against people who say vile hateful things in nice words.

Given this, it shouldn't be a surprise to you that people feel more and more that it's not worth to try and make an effort to stay nice if that's how "the top" behaves.

Whether you're left or right is not classified by what you claim yourself to be, but how you act. And wanting to be nice to animals doesn't eradicate your stance on wanting to suppress diversity.

I also recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics

> Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it

Wrong, since Electron apps NEVER sit still.

If you don't know the meaning of those yet, save your energy for the day when you do.

I'm not saying less moderation is needed, but that the moderation itself being done is low quality.

> we do such a great work maintaining top quality questions

You don't. Straight-up. You may think you do, but SO utterly fails at this.

In almost all cases where i end up on SO in my research the accepted answer is trash, and the one below it is the real one.

> I don't see myself as a kind person and asking me to spend extra mental energy

If you can't be kind, then the preferred action from you is for you to save your energy for the days when you can be kind. That's better for everyone involved.

Of course there are mechanisms. For example it is super easy to tell if an asker is indian, by their name. And often women chose names that allow a good guess. Other hints may also be contained in the name. Then there is the profile image, and of course the bio. And lastly, often the question itself can contain details that hint at things.

Yes, people can hide these characteristics, but they shouldn't need to.

> That said I have never felt that because I was not white I was treated differently, how would anyone even know that?

People extrapolate from names. ESPECIALLY if your name sounds indian.

You have a reasonable reply by nookoking, but you probably can't see it because he's banned.

nookoking, if you see this, maybe mail the mods. I have no idea why you'd be banned, your history looks fine, but all but your very first post are dead.

Gmail will send you a link, so you can at least tell the person off and have them communicate with you like a real human being.

Others might send you shit in that way.

And since massimo is a horrible disgusting freebooter who uploads degraded, double-encoded stuff he downloads from other people, there's also a clearer version of the OP video from the original creator themselves:

https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168

That sounds like a deeply boring speedrun. What's the time on a patched Morrowind?

Sounds like the correct response then is to start sending DMCA requests?

That is wrong, they closed issues indiscriminately.

Oh, and they will keep doing so: "Legacy issues that are more than one month old will be closed by an automated process as part of this cleanup effort."

Your comment entirely and completely ignores the express intent and purpose of the objects you compare, which makes the comparison invalid.

So they have a monopoly and are in a not-normal situation, and should've planned for this type of situation.

Thank you for agreeing.

And that's the point. Youtube is an extraordinary business with an utter monopoly.

Well, they made an economic tradeoff, and now people have been injured. As the famous comic says: "But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

That's because we euro tech people keep being invited by americans we know and/or work with to "come to the usa, it's great working here". And then we see stuff like this.

That is not apologism, that's realpolitik. It doesn't mean the deed is acceptable, but that people in power should've anticipated it.

More importantly, in many places in the USA, what would be medium inconveniences in other countries (illness, company folding) can quickly and easily destroy a life.

That comparison doesn't map gracefully though, given that people don't "subscribe passively" to a single email account, and email users don't (outside of mailing lists) generally broadcast.