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I don't believe this is an actual feature, but I've noticed a trend that I've been calling "twos", where, at any given moment, a particular subject (present as a word or phrase in the article's title) will show up twice on the front page. Funnily enough, currently the "twos" subject is "Hacker News", with this article and "What I've Learned from Hacker News" both being present in the front page at the same time.
Just one comment about vouch, which seems to have have changed behaviour fairly recently. Used to be that if a shadowbanned user posted a clearly substantive comment a vouch would always (nearly always?) restore it. Now it never does - I guess vouch is now just a vote that needs x votes. Suspect that's going to unintentionally have even more people talking to themselves, because they've not yet noticed the shadowban.
Pretty cool report. Personally all I want is to be able to change my username, even if it means emailing and waiting a few days.
Anybody known if emailing the mods will let this happen?
My only wish is that dupes weren't marked as dupes. It's not like you are submitting with the intention of creating a duplicate link (normally), it should just take you there instead of a [dupe] mark on your submission.
Hacker News doesn't do a good job of avoiding duplicates anyway, might as well make that a feature.
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I don't understand what you mean, why is correcting a pronoun "going too far"? Do you not think respecting people's gender is worthy of the tiny amount of effort it takes?
I think this has less to do with respect and more to do with detracting from the original discussion e.g. source code integrity having nothing to do with human genitalia.
I see that the author of the edited comment got defensive about it and went on an irrelevant rant about singular they. Wish people like that would grow up a bit.
How do I turn off echo chamber mode where well-written posts that go against the mob thinking turn grey?
Got any examples for well-written grey posts? Most downvoted posts are not that amazing.
Just one comment about vouch, which seems to have have changed behaviour fairly recently. Used to be that if a shadowbanned user posted a clearly substantive comment a vouch would always (nearly always?) restore it. Now it never does - I guess vouch is now just a vote that needs x votes. Suspect that's going to unintentionally have even more people talking to themselves, because they've not yet noticed the shadowban.