Viewing profile — billme

Good bye HN! Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable and given that’s not a good fit for me, this will be my last post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441542

Okay, understand; unfortunately that means I will just stop posting on HN, since I neither have the desire to have “an identity” on HN, nor do I intend to disregard any guidelines.…

Thanks, wasn’t aware either of them intentionally linked ADs to public comment threads. Have any notable examples?

Thanks, agree that’s a typo; unfortunately I am unable to fix it since editing is now locked, but appreciate you taking the time to point it out.

Downvotes per item are limited to -4 and the signal-to-noise ratio for negative votes beyond pushing them below the “new comment” boost is of little positive impact in filtering co…

Related link: https://lobste.rs/about And history: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Per the login page: “Not a user yet? Signup is by invitation only to combat spam and increase accountability. If you know a current user of the site [1], ask them for an invitation…

Related link, leader list: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists Direct link to top users by rep: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek (tptacek’s comments are super useful and…

Agree, I personally feel this is a major issue, in fact recently posted twice about it: Ask HN: HN user ghosted 5 years, why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436276 Ask HN: …

Here’s a mod’s recent comment on feature requests to give some context on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062

Related top level comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440929

For related prior discussion: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+are+posting+too+fast%...

Nothing stopping any user from creating posts related to an aspect of the content on any of those ADs, but it’s obvious allowing comments for ADs would potentially cause unneeded o…

Sure, read all the comments by dang (aka HN’s main mod) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239164

My experience is the post without URLs, but say 10 upvotes are generally of lower quality than URL related posts with 10 upvotes. Not sure why this is, but I was forced to speculat…

Yes, there’s a lot more upside to comments as a result. Generally voting signal to noise ratio goes: upvote, no-vote, downvote — allowing more downvote would most like have more ne…

Agree, not sure why after X amount of rep is earned something like this is not featured for just for new users, users who haven’t viewed it, etc.

Related link: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited

Generally speaking ADs don’t allow comments. Have an example or reasoning why this would make sense?

Not sure that’s always been true, or at least for sure PG was open about subsets if the code. Generally, there’s reason to open source code, and open sourcing it would likely resul…

Stating the obvious, Reddit was in the first YC batch; YC is HN’s parent company. Further, HN was created in part because Reddit’s intend is more general than HN; HN’s intend is to…

Because they are officially sponsored YC related ADs.

Reasoning is HN’s goal, per dang, is to promote substantially new information — unless the tutorial fits this meaning, it’s less of a priority to feature than those posts that do m…

Not surprising last reference I know of it is years old and PG is busy doing other things now.

Yes, that’s PG’s username, or at least the original & official one, but no, that’s not where it would appear. Here’s example of a prior reference to this feature: https://news.ycom…