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Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

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Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

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Post by johnisgood »

aspenmayer wrote: post #19

This is a great idea. A log of moderator actions on HN generally would be a good idea, imo.

That would be great for transparency indeed, the question is whether or not they want to be transparent.

The feature requests mentioned are pretty easy to implement.

Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

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Post by _yb2s »

aspenmayer wrote: post #19

This is a great idea. A log of moderator actions on HN generally would be a good idea, imo.

I think that would be exploited by bad actors- they could e.g. figure out what time of day mods are inactive to best circumvent rules, and know when things were removed in order to re-add them immediately.

Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

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Post by aspenmayer »

_yb2s wrote: post #23
aspenmayer wrote: post #19

This is a great idea. A log of moderator actions on HN generally would be a good idea, imo.

I think that would be exploited by bad actors- they could e.g. figure out what time of day mods are inactive to best circumvent rules, and know when things were removed in order to re-add them immediately.

I would posit that bad actors already know these all of these things in the status quo absence of desired transparency, with none of the upside or insights that transparency would bring.

Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

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Post by whamlastxmas »

andrewl wrote: post #6

I believe it is for Thomas Kurtz, one of the two people who created the BASIC language. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761

My very first programming language was Liberty BASIC from a “for dummies” book. He’s had such a big influence on so many developers. Rip in peace
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