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446 points tonmoy | 3 comments | 24 Aug 23 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.031s | source
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ajonit ◴[24 Aug 23 17:06 UTC] No.37251548[source]▶
While you are there, go through dang’s comments timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

Moderating something like HN is a very hard job. Gratitude .

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bowsamic ◴[24 Aug 23 17:26 UTC] No.37251867[source]▶
I understand why but I don’t like how people are individually rate limited silently without their knowledge. It is certainly immoral

EDIT: unfortunately I cannot defend my point in the comments, as I am now rate limited :)

EDIT 2: /u/Dylan16807 yes I'm seeing that. When I try and post it says "you are posting too quickly, please slow down"

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lazyasciiart ◴[24 Aug 23 23:57 UTC] No.37256087[source]▶
That was done to me as well. I still have no idea why and when I finally got it lifted dang didn't know why either. One of the most infuriating experiences I've had in a forum, and actively made worse by the sycophantic adoring articles going around at the time citing their "personal human touch". dang explained that they can't possibly have time to give everyone that personal human touch! But not to the reporters, apparently.
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tptacek ◴[25 Aug 23 00:40 UTC] No.37256408[source]▶
Have you considered asking for a refund?
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bowsamic ◴[25 Aug 23 01:02 UTC] No.37256578[source]▶
HN is free. If you paid for it, you have been scammed
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lazyasciiart ◴[25 Aug 23 01:20 UTC] No.37256689[source]▶
He knows that. I suspect he is implying that I have nothing to complain about because it is a free service, which is a pretty vacuous argument.
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tptacek ◴[25 Aug 23 01:24 UTC] No.37256725[source]▶
It's a response to your expectation of personalized service.
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1. lapcat ◴[25 Aug 23 12:35 UTC] No.37260994[source]▶
Many or most so-called "free" services, e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc., are a front for another money-making scheme. If you're not the customer, you're the product.

Hacker News is an advertisement for Y Combinator.

Let's not pretend that this is a charity.

It's also worth noting that the operators of such "free" services don't publicly take the haughty attitude of "if you don't like the service, you can have a refund of $0". You'll never hear that rhetoric from dang. They want people to use their services. Only unaffiliated outside defenders use that rhetoric.

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2. tptacek ◴[25 Aug 23 13:14 UTC] No.37261341[source]▶
The operator of the service hasn't taken that haughty attitude. A fellow user of the service has. They're feeling haughtier by the minute, it seems.
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3. lapcat ◴[25 Aug 23 14:26 UTC] No.37262099[source]▶
> They're feeling haughtier by the minute, it seems.

Who are you referring to? I'm not the one who requested a response from the moderators.