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Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by hluska »

ncmncm wrote: post #83
threatofrain wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CEO Amjad Masad was on Twitter doubling down on his accusations that Radon is a thief, even after his post on HN. Even now Amjad refuses to provide any detail or receipts to Radon for his public accusations of tortious behavior. > everyone is armchair quarterbacking here on what was the rational thing to do. Do you seriously prefer your web psychoanalysis?

BTW, a habit of spurious legal harassment is called "barratry". It is harder to demonstrate it to the satisfaction of courts than it perhaps should be, possibly because the habit is profitable for lawyers.

If anyone reads this, finds it interesting and wants to learn more, read about ‘vexatious litigation’. The process through which lawyers can be disbarred or litigants can be named vexatious is genuinely quite interesting.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by hluska »

nrmitchi wrote: post #46
ctvo wrote: post #31

Every time there's a thread on this I want to bring up the fact that Amjad still has not listed what this open source project stole. You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft and not present evidence. Release a statement clearly stating NOTHING was stolen or release evidence. We have the public commit history of the project. Feel free to go through each commit and po…

> You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft I'm not saying that I agree with threatening legal action here, but this isn't really a fair classification. You are implying the the CEO put an ex-intern on blast in the community. There is a huge difference between making a statement in a private email (which the other party then releases), and making a public accusation…

If Amjad had left it at the email, all would be fine. He went way too far on Twitter and behaved like a brute.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by dang »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #99
dang wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'more' link in place of a 'reply' link is intended to indicate that there are more comments in the subthread. We're experimenting, in order to deal with this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27437362 .

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will.

Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by hluska »

rackjack wrote: post #15
artembugara wrote: post #6

"I give you permission to publish Riju". Emm. Really? Since when does he hold such a power?

Off-topic, but does anybody remember the name of the emancipated slave that said something along the lines of "You can't give me freedom, you can only give it back"? I really love that quote but I can't find the original source.

I’m not familiar with the quote but it sounds like Frederick Douglass. My favourite Douglass quote is, “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?”

If you find the quote, let me know! I’m always looking to expand my mountain of unread books...:)

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

#105

Post by hluska »

dang wrote: post #96
sillysaurusx wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Dan, completely unrelated, but I wanted to report what seems to be a HN bug. Please feel free to detach-collapse this. album: https://imgur.com/a/QcHG9VK In the first screenshot, notice that the highlighted comment has no replies. Here's a link to the page I was on, anchored to that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?p=3&id=27424195#27429786 In the second screenshot, after navigating to the comment direct…

The 'more' link in place of a 'reply' link is intended to indicate that there are more comments in the subthread. We're experimenting, in order to deal with this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27437362 .

We all love and owe you, Dan. I hope you hear that constantly.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by Sammi »

holman wrote: post #16

His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... people from Jordan are incapable of being kind? The whole approach he took here is just very poorly thought out.

It's an attempt to paint an image of himself as the victim that you should feel sorry for. I feel manipulated when reading it.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by dang »

emc3 wrote: post #64
eh8 wrote: post #5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

> Streisand Effect Not when someone can banish it from the front page[1]. See this comment timestamp[2] and compare it with the sudden drop in ranking on the upvote tracker chart. [1] https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27437665 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27438258

This story spent the entire day yesterday at #1 on HN. It got 4000 upvotes and 1300+ comments and was by far the most prominent thread of the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-06-07. That's the opposite of "banishing".

We bent the rules considerably to allow this, for reasons I've explained at length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439301

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27427198

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Not having the same story repeat itself two days in a row is standard HN moderation.

p.s. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433981. If you could please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with, we'd really appreciate it.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by ncmncm »

brhsagain wrote: post #91
ncmncm wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an actual apology when you not only justify the bad behavior, but then go on to repeat the accusation. "I'm sorry I slugged you but you made me really mad. I won't do it again if you don't" is wholesale failure.

I guess my question then is: assume for a second Amjad has a legitimate grievance that Riju copied repl.it. (I hoped my comment would show that this is at least not a completely outlandish claim.) In that hypothetical scenario: Sure, Amjad should apologize, and he did. Shouldn't Radon apologize? Why is this a completely one-sided thing? Why is Radon allowed to be like, I don't think I did anything wrong, and I'm disa…

One person made a quick hobby project, one person bullied with potentially ruinous threats.

Not complicated, really.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by smegcicle »

dang wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will. Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

why have a different interface than the expandable [more] used for dead comments?

seems intuitive to piggyback on the same fading ui hint as comments, having a bright "more" indicating standing of hidden comments...

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by sillysaurusx »

dang wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will. Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

Honestly, at HN’s scale, maybe it makes sense now. After spending today using it, my gut reaction was to be sad that people will feel reluctant to throw a bunch of effort into replies that will immediately be hidden (as with Reddit). But after the server meltdown yesterday, it’s understandable.

14 years was a really good run. I suppose even lisp has its limits. :(

Yeah, adding the descendant count would make it pretty good. Hard to think of anything better.

I’ll be honest: I’m really worried this will become another tool for moderators to control discussions, while concealing the fact that it was a moderator (rather than algorithmic) decision. But no one can stop you if that’s the kind of control you want for your team.

The flip side of that is, since 2018, your team has done a stellar job, as far as I can tell. I don’t know if something changed, but things seem calmer now. I can’t even recall the last worrisome moderator decision, and I’ve found myself arguing on your behalf more than once.

Dunno. You’ll get it right; you usually do. Thanks for being welcoming about ideas, and good luck wrestling with transpilers and performance issues.

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