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by dang 2260 days ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

1 comments

How about no, control freak.
While I agree with you that some folk may become obsessed with controlling people (inefficiently) as a method to inflate their own ego (freak) - I err on the side of "dang" in this scenario where you have rejected the request (not just because she/he is our common moderator on this platform). Your comment prompted me to address some communication abnormalities that I have been noticing across the past few election cycles, which is why I still find your past few permanent text inputs valuable (representative of the common worker).

Over the years, I have expected this forum (HN) to be reserved for people who will digest internet content and output thoughtful responses - "dang" is my warden.

Reddit migration is understandable (you are seeking more substance). The simple act of including more word variation in your responses is enough to avoid the text-shade-lightening that is being naturally inflicted upon your simple-minded input.

However - the quantity of words in a comment issued is not necessarily proportional to the value provided.