This is by far my favorite pocket of the internet and much thanks goes to the team that keeps the culture alive and well!
Thank you to dang and sctb
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#12Hear hear! Thanks to dang and sctb, and to everyone who keeps this site up and running, AND to the incredibly thoughtful and interesting commenters!
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#13Thank you both.
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#14Thank you Dan and Scott!
I appreciate the understanding, i once added a "post to HN" button to my RSS feed service and i posted too much..
I received a ban and only afterwards it seemed i was posting too much, but explained the situation and was met with understanding. Now, i'm much more considerate.
Thanks for the human moderation and keeping the quality on HN as good as possible.
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#15dang has to be one of the most patient and civil mods I've ever come across on an internet forum of any kind. I try and mimic his style on assets that I have mod duties on.
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#16Also thanks for being so super responsive and helpful to emails queries too. I've gotten replies from dang in matter of minutes! Amazing how well they do it.
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#17dang called me a troll after I simply asked him exactly what it was about my comment that warranted it being removed. So, no thanks actually.
Looking at your screenshot you post elsewhere (https://ibb.co/hoSMHK), I have to agree with them insofar as you need to know when to quit.
Running a forum is hard work and everyone wants to devolve every mod decision into rules lawyering, like "well, then why wasn't this specific thing in the rules?"
No, there can't be a rule for literally everything, so you're just going to have to be an adult and take it on the chin when the mods make a decision and double down on it. I completely empathize with dang's final post, that your "legalistic gambit" is a waste of everyone's time, and often the platform people like to spring off some sort of "omg the mod tyranny" campaign.
That happened over 70 days ago. Maybe it's time to let it go and learn to live with the fact that your tiny comment was flagged. Looking at your post history, you've lived through much worse, respectfully.
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#18as someone whose writing ends up on here from time to time, I really appreciate the HN mods' work to keep discussion on topic & constructive. It's obviously a tough job and every time I've emailed them with a concern they've been very helpful.
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#19Thank you dang and sctb. Your effort is instrumental in keeping HN the cool place that it is :)
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#20dang called me a troll after I simply asked him exactly what it was about my comment that warranted it being removed. So, no thanks actually.
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