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Comment by flutas

2 years ago

> Read it with your entire brain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Don't be an ass.

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms

> AND

> content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

I'm reading it explicitly how it's written when taking the grammar into account. [0] I've even expanded it below, so that you can see how it reads without a comma.

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms

AND

> we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

Looking at the full policy though, yeah their tweets aren't in line with what the full policy states.[1]

[0]: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-before-and/

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...