functional-tree

It's been like this for a long time. It's by far the least transparent moderation in a community I've ever seen. For a long time I thought of HN as a generally smart, reasonable community (less so these days with the masses here) but the completely opaque moderation has always seemed extraordinarily, unnecessarily restrictive and elitist. It's unlikely to change at this point. The minority who care don't matter enough.

Personally I'd love to see another smaller, more refocused community spin off where better, more open and reasoned tech/startup discussions can take place. Keep it invite-only perhaps.

I'd lose interest in living on a barren red rock after a few days. Lonely, cold, harsh, and no Internet access.

I was quite awful at cursive handwriting in school, and as soon as it wasn't required, I switched back to block lettering... something similar to this article (in-air joins) when I need to write faster.

Cursive has always struck me as being illegible and archaic. If we're going to appreciate hand-written text, I'd much rather advocate calligraphy and/or explorations of old-style fountain pen writing. What I was taught as a kid ("new"-style cursive text) just seems like an unnecessary distraction.

Granted, I'd much rather type. Handwriting really tires out my wrist.