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Re: Lobsters

#101

Post by SoftwareMaven »

rauljara wrote: post #41

Explanation for the site being invite only: "Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as needed." Seems b…

I can't imagine that making an echo chamber at all. The likelihood of me getting an invite is next to nil, as I don't really fraternize with people around here. Guess I'll stick around here.

Re: Lobsters

#102

Post by spitfire »

Lazare wrote: post #90
spitfire wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, there's almost zero doubt I've annoyed a moderator at some point. There's no list of moderators anywhere is there? I could tick off the ones I haven't annoyed.

Nope, no list of moderators. You'll never know who, and you'll never know why, and you probably won't be able to get it reversed. Also, Macro: The step beyond slowbanning is hellbanning, where nobody can see your comments except you, and users with "show dead" on. You've been hellbanned for over a year. As to why...maybe some mod thought your first comment was a bit content free. Maybe they were just having a bad day…

Well we know why. I pissed off one of the cool kids. That's crime enough.

Re: Lobsters

#103

Post by jpdoctor »

anthonyb wrote: post #81
why-el wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yehuda is one of the active users: https://lobste.rs/u/wycats Update: The site is also open source: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters Last shameless update: Would love an invite. Email in my profile.

There's also some more information here: https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters

Thanks for that link. FTL: Hacker News is operated by a company, Y Combinator, which has a significant financial incentive to censor or promote the links and discussion posted on the site that relate to Y Combinator-funded startups (or competitors of them).

Haven't seen much discussion about this HN flaw. Interesting...

Re: Lobsters

#104

Post by kcbanner »

jsprink_ban2 wrote: post #27
tptacek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JCS was banned from Hacker News? What the hell?

I got the same treatment he did -- and have on accounts I have made since -- and we exchanged emails during development. We both went through each others' posts and couldn't find any rational reason for the treatment (slow banning and hell banning, in both of our cases). Lack of transparency is a pretty big deal on this forum, and once you've crossed Paul -- without knowing how -- it's scorched earth on any account y…

Now we just need invites!

Re: Lobsters

#105

Post by jcr »

tptacek wrote: post #65
jsprink_ban2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the same treatment he did -- and have on accounts I have made since -- and we exchanged emails during development. We both went through each others' posts and couldn't find any rational reason for the treatment (slow banning and hell banning, in both of our cases). Lack of transparency is a pretty big deal on this forum, and once you've crossed Paul -- without knowing how -- it's scorched earth on any account y…

Graham allows the dumbest people on the Internet to come onto this site to berate startups he all but begged people to create, but hellbanned a guy who pooped out a better version of HN in his spare time, for nothing. For fuck's sake.

From the date in the blog post, it seems you got things backwards; after getting hellbanned, he created lobsters.

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Re: Lobsters

#106

Post by roryokane »

roryokane wrote: post #66

Can an existing user of Lobsters please send me an invite? (My email is in my profile.) According to https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters , the only reason Lobsters is invite-only is to prevent spammers from signing up. So if you want to check that I’m not a spammer, just glance at my past comments ( http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=roryokane ) and submissions ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ror…

Someone sent me an invite – thanks!

Re: Lobsters

#107

Post by [deleted] »

tptacek wrote: post #65
jsprink_ban2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the same treatment he did -- and have on accounts I have made since -- and we exchanged emails during development. We both went through each others' posts and couldn't find any rational reason for the treatment (slow banning and hell banning, in both of our cases). Lack of transparency is a pretty big deal on this forum, and once you've crossed Paul -- without knowing how -- it's scorched earth on any account y…

Graham allows the dumbest people on the Internet to come onto this site to berate startups he all but begged people to create, but hellbanned a guy who pooped out a better version of HN in his spare time, for nothing. For fuck's sake.

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Re: Lobsters

#108

Post by Xcelerate »

Lazare wrote: post #90
spitfire wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, there's almost zero doubt I've annoyed a moderator at some point. There's no list of moderators anywhere is there? I could tick off the ones I haven't annoyed.

Nope, no list of moderators. You'll never know who, and you'll never know why, and you probably won't be able to get it reversed. Also, Macro: The step beyond slowbanning is hellbanning, where nobody can see your comments except you, and users with "show dead" on. You've been hellbanned for over a year. As to why...maybe some mod thought your first comment was a bit content free. Maybe they were just having a bad day…

Haha, poor Macro. Look at his comment history: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Macro

Re: Lobsters

#109

Post by pg »

tptacek wrote: post #13
akashshah wrote: post #8

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News." EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features

JCS was banned from Hacker News? What the hell?

His post is mistaken. His account isn't banned. I banned it temporarily while waiting for a reply to my email, then unbanned it. (I often do this when I ask people to stop doing something, because I've found that some people keep resubmitting otherwise.) I don't remember exactly how much later that was, but usually it's less than a day; if it were longer I'd forget. If he'd replied to my email I would have unbanned him immediately.

I told him this when I came across that blog post a while ago, but he seems to prefer his more colorful version of the story.

Re: Lobsters

#110

Post by rjsamson »

roryokane wrote: post #106
roryokane wrote: post #66

Can an existing user of Lobsters please send me an invite? (My email is in my profile.) According to https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters , the only reason Lobsters is invite-only is to prevent spammers from signing up. So if you want to check that I’m not a spammer, just glance at my past comments ( http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=roryokane ) and submissions ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ror…

Someone sent me an invite – thanks!

That's awesome - any chance you could pay it forward? My email is also in my profile. Thanks!
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