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by lrvick 1422 days ago
Your centralized exploitative adtech business that exists at the expense of the well being of society is failing because another bigger centralized exploitative adtech business will not care about your well being?

Now you want a tech worker community who is among the people you track and exploit to help you get back to doing that.

I suggest you take this as an opportunity to seek out a living producing something that has a chance of being actually positive for society.
1 comments
Volker_W 1421 days ago
Seeing this comment in the #1 spot makes me proud of the HN community.
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throwaway67743 1421 days ago
And yet agreeing with a concise "get fucked" version results in downvotes, sadge
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radiojasper 1421 days ago
the "this" is what got you the downvotes, not the agreeing with. Because when you say "this", you also could've just upvoted.
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throwaway67743 1419 days ago
You say that, but upvote seems to have disappeared, re shadow banning thread.

This is why shadow banning is just stupid, deal with confrontation and ban properly or not at all - that is ignoring all of the other people it affects, I share an IP with 1000s of people, it could be them or it could be me, who knows because there is no feedback.

I do find it pretty funny that this needs to be explained to a HN audience, but then it's verging on a tech support forum with all the Facebook and Apple woe is me....

Interesting, it does intermittently appear, perhaps ad blocking is filtering it, also maybe js disabled might be related.

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radiojasper 1419 days ago
that's just a JS thing. Shadow banning is a term coiled by people who don't understand that their content just doesn't gain any traction.
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throwaway67743 1416 days ago
That is patently untrue, through - yes many people do confuse those, but shadow banning (stupid term but it is what it is) is a real thing - case in point I signed up for a twitch account (don't ask) and it appears because I signed up from a shared ip address (cgnat, 1000s of people) my chat shows sent in my browser but never appears - that is shadow banning and it is extremely cowardly.

(Proven with streams that show chat, also never informs my followers that I'm online, does not show in the online list on their side)

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