[gamblor956]

You need to visit this page: http://www.sfdph.org/dph/eh/Food/Permits/default.asp. Then you need to talk to a lawyer and have a serious discussion about your liability issues (and the liability issues for your "hosts") and come up with a plan for helping your hosts understand just what they're getting into when they use your site to run a "one table restaurant."

You've created a cute site, but now that you're running it as a business that interacts with the real world you need to step up to the plate and treat it like a real business. And that means dealing with the unsexy stuff like licensing (for yourself or your hosts).

In two weeks, if you haven't added something to your site about this, I'm going to personally call the SF Department of Public Health myself.

[samstave]

Fuck you.

Seriously - the world is not as black and white as you would want it to be... we do not need regulation of every single little aspect of our lives.

Have you fucking eaten at restaurants in SF? Try Sam Woo you asshole - that place was an SF legend; and it was one of the most disgusting places.

[tptacek]

Wow. What a terrible way to respond. First, opening with "fuck you" and calling another commenter an asshole is uncivil and drags the site down. Second, the insults you chose to hurl at the commenter are empty and boring; they're written solely for your benefit and not for any reader, including the commenter you're replying to. And if you're upset about the commenter's threat to call the health inspector, howling insults at them is (a) unlikely to change their mind and (b) certainly going to make this thread more memorable, lessening the chance that they'd simply forget to make good on the threat.

[samstave]

Dude,

Threatening someone on HN with "if you fail to do X Ill call and report you by Y date" deserves my response.

I stand by that comment. Your comment is written solely to make your self look so much "better" than me, is it not.

Get off your high-horse Patrick.

[tptacek]

I'm just not sure what you're trying to accomplish. I read both your comments and those of the commenter you're replying to, regularly. Confidently: he doesn't care what you think.

[samstave]

So, I am NOT supposed to be concerned with what he thinks of my comment - yet I am supposed to be sensitive to your qualms with the term "fuck you"?

Patrick, either you are on the side of me being able to voice my opinion, or you are in favor of me censoring it due to your, or some poster's, concern for sentiment.

I am concluded that you're more in favor of me being censored when you can have your apologist worldview unoffended and you can continue to feel morally high.

Look, we have never agreed on HN, I feel you are an apologist and you may feel I'm an extremist; but let me tell you one thing I am not: one who censors the opinions of others - I am one who engages another in my beliefs.

Why don't you take a stress pill, sit down calmly and think things over...

[tptacek]

My name isn't Patrick.