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Re: CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress

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Post by grzm » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 10:01 PM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #40

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #17

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I NEVER SAID IT WAS! Good grief, people. You'd think the strawman argument wouldn't get this kind of traction on HN. I had a thought that I've seen lots of announcements -- nicely timed -- along these lines over the past few months. That's it. MOST of it has come from official sources. I was just making a freaking observation, and making an inference about it. It wasn't particularly about this post at all. Sorry for…

And now this has been flagged. Again, for the guy who apparently mods this whole thing, and to whom I can't reply: it was a random thought, for which I've been thrashed. Super. I absolutely alluded to organized PR; I never claimed this was part of it. The timing simply brought the idea to the foreground. I never claimed the author or the poster was a shill. It was just an unfortunate coincidence. I apologize to the i…

I've found updating my hosts file to block sites that I'd rather not visit but find myself visiting anyway and wasting time. Maybe that would help? (Honest advice, if that's what you're looking for. If I've read your comment wrong, please ignore.)

HN purposefully doesn't delete accounts to preserve the conversations and their context. There's a comment from pg around here to that effect.

Edit: here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226

Re: CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress

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Post by TheRealDunkirk » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 10:22 PM UTC

grzm wrote: post #41

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now this has been flagged. Again, for the guy who apparently mods this whole thing, and to whom I can't reply: it was a random thought, for which I've been thrashed. Super. I absolutely alluded to organized PR; I never claimed this was part of it. The timing simply brought the idea to the foreground. I never claimed the author or the poster was a shill. It was just an unfortunate coincidence. I apologize to the i…

I've found updating my hosts file to block sites that I'd rather not visit but find myself visiting anyway and wasting time. Maybe that would help? (Honest advice, if that's what you're looking for. If I've read your comment wrong, please ignore.) HN purposefully doesn't delete accounts to preserve the conversations and their context. There's a comment from pg around here to that effect. Edit: here it is: https://new…

Yeah, I get why they don't delete. It does make a mess of Reddit threads. And I've thought maybe even DNS-black-holing. But whatever I do, I know I'll just eventually turn it off again. :-/

Re: CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress

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Post by dang » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 4:24 AM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #12

barhun wrote: post #11

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I'm just a .NET developer who is following what's new in the field and bearing no relation to Microsoft's PR department. This issue comment was posted 6 days ago so they much likely didn't know this was possible when they were reporting news from the event Microsoft Connect(); 2016 last week.

And that invalidates my comment... how? Microsoft announcements appear here in a nicely-spaced way that seems to garner lots of interest and, yet, not induce fatigue. How and why this is happening is "an exercise left to the reader."

Accusations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence are not allowed on HN. Someone liking different things than what you like is not evidence.

In context, what you've posted here is a sordid attack on a fellow user. That's shameful, and even worse after you got a good-faith response. Please don't do it again.

Re: CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress

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Post by dang » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 4:27 AM UTC

curried_haskell wrote: post #18

darklajid wrote: post #16

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That invalidates your comment in so far as that the person that submitted this as news claims to have no affiliation with Microsoft. Unless you claim that the submitter is lying your whole 'Hey, nicely done by your PR department, Microsoft' argument goes down the drain.

Welcome to astroturfing 101. And they rely on people like you to keep the doubt alive. But you have to be incredibly naive to think social media manipulation isn't a core part of companies marketing strategies today.

I'm sure it is, but attacking fellow community members with no basis is a bannable offence. That's what you're doing, and you need to stop doing it if you want to keep posting here.

If you or anyone sees evidence of astroturfing on HN, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can properly look into it (which we always do). We take the issue seriously, and it's also a serious breach of civility to casually sling these accusations at others. Two wrongs don't make a right.