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Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by antisol »

dang wrote: post #90
antisol wrote: post #88

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It absolutely does not. Unless you can claim to have some evidence of what I was thinking. And if you did make that claim, I know for a fact that you would be wrong. You are being a fucking asshole. Good job.

Yikes! you can't do that here, whatsoever. Please don't post flamewar comments or attack other users on HN. We ban accounts that do that. We're trying for an entirely different kind of conversation. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Thanks for the constructive feedback.

I was emotional as I found the accusation deeply offensive.

I'll try to edit the response and to not do that in future. Thank you for being even-handed in your application of the rules and acknowledging that the post I was responding to was also a violation :)

Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by antisol »

Ygg2 wrote: post #86
antisol wrote: post #71

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I guess it depends on your perspective. For example, if you work for musescore... ;)

Yeah, there is heavy bandwagonning going around.

I really don't understand why your comments keep getting flagged. Bizarre.

Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by martimarkov »

TameAntelope wrote: post #43
martimarkov wrote: post #41

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Is it just me, or does "These decisions took time to arrive at because - despite my role as the lead on the project - calls on this specific issue are not mine to make" sound a hell of a lot like a diplomatic way of saying "I have been instructed to add spyware to audacity"? How is the above entitled tone ?

"The submission" I reference in my comment is the GitHub issue submitted to Hacker News that we are now commenting on, which is not the original comment, but a response to Audacity's moderation of its own repository.

I mean it's in a response to the one I mentioned. This should not be seen and only considered in isolation. The backstory and events play a part.

No self-respecting Open Source project should ban you for simply asking a question. I don't consider it entitlement to then go back and address the reaction specifically. At the very least both sides show emotions. One is hurt from the lack of openness, the other from being questioned at all.

Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by martimarkov »

IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #50
martimarkov wrote: post #35

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Hey they have the option to answer the OG question. They chose not to. Their behaviour the is one in bad faith to begin with. 1. Ask a legit question 2. Ban If that is not bad faith...

What... you expect someone who is obviously carefully weighing the words they use to reply with "yes, I'm being forced to this! Send help, the boss is evil!!"? No... you wouldn't get answer even it were true. What does it look like under the assumption that there just isn't a grand conspiracy? I. e. the person on Github just isn't the only person working at audacity and is careful not to make promises they can't keep…

You are not only building a product you have open sourced. This project was almost a community project.

You have the moral obligation to cater for the community as you didn't just buy the project but you also inherited the community.

Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by antisol »

martimarkov wrote: post #18
geofft wrote: post #5

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Normally I'd say "Gestapo tactics" is an exaggeration for deleting a comment someone wrote on the internet, but given that the company in question has threatened someone with the specific brutality of the Chinese police, I think it might be warranted here. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/muse_group_deportatio... > I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and C…

On what grounds is this downvoted?

Pretty sure the grounds were "the troll factory muse group has hired finds this fact inconvenient"

Re: Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions

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Post by antisol »

martimarkov wrote: post #94
TameAntelope wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The submission" I reference in my comment is the GitHub issue submitted to Hacker News that we are now commenting on, which is not the original comment, but a response to Audacity's moderation of its own repository.

I mean it's in a response to the one I mentioned. This should not be seen and only considered in isolation. The backstory and events play a part. No self-respecting Open Source project should ban you for simply asking a question. I don't consider it entitlement to then go back and address the reaction specifically. At the very least both sides show emotions. One is hurt from the lack of openness, the other from being…

You are exactly right. And you make the point so clearly and calmly. Thanks! :)
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