I am more and more worried that shutting down Twitter is and has been the plan. This is about controlling speech a different way.
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#992@dang - maybe let one twitter story through to the home page?
The current thread ended up spending 10 hours on HN's front page. IIRC it was flagged by users and we restored it. I didn't see your comment till just now. (@dang doesn't do anything—if you or anyone want to tell me something, the reliable message queue is hn@ycombinator.com.) I agree that this is a major ongoing topic (MOT) and needs to be discussed. At the same time, so many of the submissions are repeats of things…
Dang, what is the deal with accounts being unfairly blocked from submitting links? And can mods apply this punishment arbitrarily?
Some accounts are allowed to submit links frequently, even a few minutes between submissions, while other accounts are being blocked from submitting and can only do so once every few or 24 hours. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." Is this some type of new punitive action?
It also looks very unfair, when applied to accounts that are clearly not spammers (and maybe submit a few times in a day or week) or appears as a punitive action because of some difference of opinion with a mod.
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#993The management is worried about internal sabotage? My Twitter friends said Twitter has been having large exodus. CSL(core systems lib?) team, blobstore team, graph platform team, and revenue forecasting team seemed have all quit. I'm not sure how robust and autonomous Twitter's infra is. Hopefully Twitter will continue to function.
There's reports the NOC and SREs have all left as well. Surely an outage is right around the corner.
>Surely an outage is right around the corner.
Hahahahahaha
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#994Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely feels like internal sabotage at the moment...
Weird new CEO fires half the company, then demands a _loyalty pledge_, like a common Henry VIII. Sensibly, everyone quits. I mean, the only saboteur there is the leadership.
Weird how twitter is running just fine huh
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#995Elon's first non-reply tweet since the news broke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 > How do you make a small fortune in social media? > Start out with a large one.
A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea w…
I'm appaled at how ignorant you are
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#996My respect to twitter folks quitting en mass is through the roof. I understand those who can not quit right now due to financial commitments. But as soon as your house is in order, quit. This will send a strong message to anyone trying to emulate musk.
The message to the world right now seems to be that you can fire 90% of SJW/leftist trash staff and the website just runs better. Maybe its time to take a look in the mirror bucko
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#997Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. He was pretty clear. The bar kicked out the Nazis, and he wants them back in.
If you redefine "the Nazis" to include everyone who isn't 100% on board with extreme leftist woke propaganda, sure. Thousands of women banned for not agreeing that men in dresses should have full access to women's spaces for one example.
We're well aware that people like Elon and yourself what his daughter dead. I guess you're celebrating today!
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#998Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current thread ended up spending 10 hours on HN's front page. IIRC it was flagged by users and we restored it. I didn't see your comment till just now. (@dang doesn't do anything—if you or anyone want to tell me something, the reliable message queue is hn@ycombinator.com.) I agree that this is a major ongoing topic (MOT) and needs to be discussed. At the same time, so many of the submissions are repeats of things…
Dang, what is the deal with accounts being unfairly blocked from submitting links? And can mods apply this punishment arbitrarily? Some accounts are allowed to submit links frequently, even a few minutes between submissions, while other accounts are being blocked from submitting and can only do so once every few or 24 hours. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." Is this some type of new punitive action…
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, as your account did recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462. Rate limits apply to all posting (i.e. both submissions and comments).
We're happy to remove the rate limit when we believe that an account is going to use HN as intended in the future. However, you just broke the site guidelines badly a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686024. Posting like that will get you banned here! — regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are — so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make sure not to post like that in the future.
Once you've built up a track record of not breaking the site guidelines, you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit.
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#999Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
#1000What happens when Twitter survives despite reducing headcount by 80-90%? It's going to send a message that companies are more overstaffed than we thought. This may explain an underlying fear driving even some engineers to put their reputation on the line with confident declarations that Twitter is going to fail. Some were saying it wouldn't survive the night. It's now morning. Others saying it won't last the weekend…
That could happen, but if you were running, say, a grocery store, and 90 of your 100 employees walked out the door in a single swoop, everything would look pretty good for a little while, maybe even a day or two. There's still merchandise on the shelves, customers are still able to check out because you've routed your staff there. But over time things will start to cascade. The freezer breaks. Someone breaks a bottle…
What about now?