Comment by dang
5 years ago
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted some very good comments. But if you keep vandalizing the site—which is what comments like this one, "your selfish rant is horseshit", and others you've posted amount to—then we won't have a choice.
HN is fragile to begin with, and gets more so as comments like this evoke worse from others, including from the (far more numerous) cohort of users who like to post this way and don't also post some very good comments. A forum like HN is perennially teetering on the edge of a downward spiral and can easily burn itself to a crisp. The founding idea of the site was to try to stave that fate off, at least for a while:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. It's in your interest to do so, since scorched earth is uninteresting.
Do downvoted/flagged comments not show up in the results? I was curious after this comment and went through several pages for this user. I didn't find anything other than a lot of insightful posts
In general, you need to set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile to see most of the worst things that get posted to HN. I can't remember if that applies to the specific comments I was referring to there.