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Re: Lobsters

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Post by nostradamnit »

roryokane wrote: post #113
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’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.

I'd like an invite as well please :)

Re: Lobsters

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Post by atombender »

pg wrote: post #109
tptacek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 h…

As an aside, you should consider disabling the automatic IP banning, which is clearly overzealous. The places I read HN from, including the office and my home LAN, have static IPs, and approximately every 14 days I find that my IP is suddenly banned, and I have to resort to a proxy server to use HN.

When this happens I end up shooting you a personal email, to which you have replied, dismissively, only once. Either you are reading my emails or there is some kind of expiry on the bans, because I find I am usually unbanned within a few days to a week.

Oh, and there is nothing malicious happening on my LAN that warrants this kind of banning. I'm a casual HN reader/poster.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by channingwalton »

batgaijin wrote: post #180
sharkweek wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm relatively new to HN ( I understand that in a competitive, fast paced and big money industry there will be massive egos, but I could sure do without some of the jerks

Well a real problem is the fact that it takes no effort to by cynical. It doesn't take intelligence or facts to be cynical, only doubt under the cover of pragmatism.

Nice!

Re: Lobsters

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Post by FR6 »

roryokane wrote: post #113
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’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.

Is it possible to have an invitation too? colt450 on Gmail. Thank you roryokane!!

Re: Lobsters

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Post by c-oreills »

roryokane wrote: post #113
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’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.

I'd really love an invite, please =)

Re: Lobsters

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Post by jpeavy1 »

olalonde wrote: post #2

No about page, no way to register, no mention of Yehuda Katz... edit: Apparently, the site was launched by Joshua Stein (after getting hellbanned from HN), not Yehuda Katz. https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Yes, but does it suffer from "Unknown or expired link", that's all I want to know..............

-jp

Re: Lobsters

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Post by Hates_ »

Hates_ wrote: post #168
roryokane wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.

Anyone able to invite me?

Thank you, I now have an invite :)
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