Hacker News Guidelines

The world of internet would be a _much_ better place if everyone at least have read this. I tried my best to adhere to these rules in any social network.

It is unfortunate that the rules are so vague/up for interpretation, and when you break them, it isn't explained to you that you broke them. The rule just gets cited and there you go.

That's in many ways deliberate, and I'd argue to positive effect.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256792>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032058>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307680>

Except, mods don't elaborate.

Except of course that they do, though given volume and repetitiveness of moderation issues, this isn't in all cases, and often points to earlier threads:

A general search showing links to rationale / reasons: <by:dang please don't https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=>

You can also typically search Algolia for "by:dang" + the text used to describe what guideline was transgressed.

As I've noted elsewhere, HN operates on frictions and nudges: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137757>

And you can always email mods for clarification, as has been noted several times already in this thread. Dang explicitly includes this option when banning established accounts in many cases.

In large part though, HN presumes adult behaviour, which includes the ability and inclination to research for yourself what you might have done wrong.

We're not talking about immature behavior, I'm specifically talking about things like people who have some disability, or people who are culturally different than the majority of HN, being largely excluded.

The adult behaviour I'd specified was "the ability and inclination to research for yourself what you might have done wrong". I fail to see at all how this would exclude anyone who might otherwise be capable of productively engaging with HN.

If you don't mind a late addition, it's also responding to comments as written, and not as one would prefer for them to have been written, as you're raising an objection not grounded in what I'd said.

Not all adults have that capacity.

If you don't mind, could you give some examples of what conditions interfere with what parts of that process, whilst preserving the capacity to otherwise engage productively on HN?