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Ongoing topic thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536459

This is a better blurb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498576 , your new one is a set of instructions. I think it just needs to be a little clearer, you're on the right trac…

You should mail questions like this to the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com

The mishap is not the chatbot accidentally getting too extreme and at odds with 'Elon's centrist stuff'. The mishap is the chatbot is too obvious and inept about Musk's intent.

experienced similar attacks That's a very good reason not to reach for dehumanizing tropes like 'vile scum' on HN or really anywhere else.

You can mail such questions to hn@ycombinator.com or search dang's comments for the years of explainers of the things that happen with posts of that nature.

A US presidential candidate got shot and people flagged that. How would one even assess this 'rigor' without considering the things that never made it to begin with. There was also…

Right, because otherwise you end up with a split discussion and people miss stuff, moderators end up having to merge them, etc. Immediate followups count as dupes (in HN's weird du…

The Stacked Borrows mentioned had threads in 2020 and 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22281205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17715399

Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

It's neither clickbait nor misleading, just a spider.

You just had a big Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394051 so you probably want to give this a few weeks for the hivemind caches to clear (even though it's a differen…

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504534

"Responsible disclosure policies" are mostly vendor exhortations to people who do a public service (finding vulnerabilities and publicly disclosing them) not to embarrass them too …

Show HN recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859464

I fixed the confusing bit, thanks. I'm not persuaded by the reasoning because I don't see how the reasoning is relevant - we're talking about a specific dickish comment in a specif…

I linked it because it explains why the story is not a good HN story and it's not because of the Appleinside blogspam - to my reading, the modcomment is fairly clear about that. Yo…

A thread in 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493536

There's no analogy or wall of text that makes that comment unshitty and inviting of conversation. It's not a thing one should do on HN because it trashes the place. We resolve this…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44497296

No, there's also /shownew so it's not just that. this wouldn't apply then? Why not? Looks like a completely reasonable Show HN. Could probably use a better blurb i.e. 'tune for HN-…