HN is for curious conversation between humans and we have clear guidelines. That’s been unchanged for two decades. Bots, trolls and any other actors using HN in ways that breach the guidelines are banned, usually by our…
Please don’t use HN for ideological battle. You’ve not commented here in over a year (and have posted only 25 comments in a decade, most of them ideologically-flavored), and you now chime in with three inflammatory…
Please don't post flame bait on HN, including population-wide swipes like “the ignorance of the common human being”. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here.…
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. It's a hallmark of a low-effort comment…
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Please don't post like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you. If you would like to edit past comments, you can email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we can work with you to correct the record.
Hacker News is a place where we don't settle for the dumbest-possible interpretation of things. He didn't say "I invented" or "I created". He had been a politician for 22 years when he did that interview, and had…
The guidelines apply regardless of the topic, and regardless of who you're replying to. There's no point having guidelines if we only apply them in cases where it's popular to do so. For the record, this is the comment…
I'm not sure how it's plausible that we would (1) want to host something like what you're describing, and then (2) completely scrub it and pretend it never happened. We don't ever delete anything from HN (except in rare…
Can you share a link or any identifying words that would enable us to know exactly what you're referring to? Dang and I monitor this site throughout the day, every day, and we have no idea what you mean. If it was a…
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No he didn’t. Please don’t post lame comments like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we’re trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m being friendly. I characterize it as fulminating due to the use of capitalization (which is specifically against the guidelines), along with an overall belligerent tone. It’s just not a cutthroat enough topic to get…
Please don’t fulminate like this. It’s obviously a debatable topic. It’s not like we can do a DNA paternity test :) I took a cue from the Wikipedia page, which says, on the opening sentence that he is “recognized as one…
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” That is not a claim that he “created the Internet”. He, of anybody, knows that sponsoring legislation to enable the…
To me it counts as a trope and the guidelines ask as to avoid posting Internet tropes, for the very reason that they’re more likely to elicit a groan than a laugh. We’d love to see good jokes on HN, but they’re a…
It’s dispiriting when someone has to chime in with the predictable/lame comment on any topic. We want HN to be better than that.
I had already looked up the full quote; it’s right there with the full context in the Al Gore and information technology Wikipedia article [1]. In a 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, he said “During my service in the…
Thanks! We’ve updated the title.
Please don’t post snarky or low-substance comments on HN.
Previously... How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482 - Sept 2021 (291 comments)
The passing of laws that affect technology platforms has always been on topic on HN. That shouldn't be surprising on a site that's specifically for people interested in technology and tech industry topics.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting egregious comments over several years. This is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please just flag comments like this, and if you're feeling extra helpful, email us (hn@ycombinator.com).
HN is for curious conversation between humans and we have clear guidelines. That’s been unchanged for two decades. Bots, trolls and any other actors using HN in ways that breach the guidelines are banned, usually by our…
Please don’t use HN for ideological battle. You’ve not commented here in over a year (and have posted only 25 comments in a decade, most of them ideologically-flavored), and you now chime in with three inflammatory…
Please don't post flame bait on HN, including population-wide swipes like “the ignorance of the common human being”. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here.…
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. It's a hallmark of a low-effort comment…
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Please don't post like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you. If you would like to edit past comments, you can email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we can work with you to correct the record.
Hacker News is a place where we don't settle for the dumbest-possible interpretation of things. He didn't say "I invented" or "I created". He had been a politician for 22 years when he did that interview, and had…
The guidelines apply regardless of the topic, and regardless of who you're replying to. There's no point having guidelines if we only apply them in cases where it's popular to do so. For the record, this is the comment…
I'm not sure how it's plausible that we would (1) want to host something like what you're describing, and then (2) completely scrub it and pretend it never happened. We don't ever delete anything from HN (except in rare…
Can you share a link or any identifying words that would enable us to know exactly what you're referring to? Dang and I monitor this site throughout the day, every day, and we have no idea what you mean. If it was a…
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
No he didn’t. Please don’t post lame comments like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we’re trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m being friendly. I characterize it as fulminating due to the use of capitalization (which is specifically against the guidelines), along with an overall belligerent tone. It’s just not a cutthroat enough topic to get…
Please don’t fulminate like this. It’s obviously a debatable topic. It’s not like we can do a DNA paternity test :) I took a cue from the Wikipedia page, which says, on the opening sentence that he is “recognized as one…
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” That is not a claim that he “created the Internet”. He, of anybody, knows that sponsoring legislation to enable the…
To me it counts as a trope and the guidelines ask as to avoid posting Internet tropes, for the very reason that they’re more likely to elicit a groan than a laugh. We’d love to see good jokes on HN, but they’re a…
It’s dispiriting when someone has to chime in with the predictable/lame comment on any topic. We want HN to be better than that.
I had already looked up the full quote; it’s right there with the full context in the Al Gore and information technology Wikipedia article [1]. In a 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, he said “During my service in the…
Thanks! We’ve updated the title.
Please don’t post snarky or low-substance comments on HN.
Previously... How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482 - Sept 2021 (291 comments)
The passing of laws that affect technology platforms has always been on topic on HN. That shouldn't be surprising on a site that's specifically for people interested in technology and tech industry topics.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting egregious comments over several years. This is not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please just flag comments like this, and if you're feeling extra helpful, email us (hn@ycombinator.com).