Comment by tomhow
5 days ago
Please don't try to game HN like this. We can easily turn off the flamewar detector when the topic warrants it, and users who post excessive numbers of low-quality comments can have rate-limiting turned on.
There seems to be a whole lot of drama about this project and from what I can see there are reasonable arguments for and against.
How about just respecting the merits of open debate about a topic and let other readers decide for themselves, rather than going to war on the project and on HN to try and swing things in favour of your own argument?
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pvg isn't a HN mod, for what it's worth.
I'm sorry that my project caused you this much distress. If you live in NYC and hate the idling complaint law, lobby your representatives to kill it. I didn't make the law or even the service that lets you file reports under it. I just wrote an API client.
People have filed idling complaints for years, long before this app existed. Even if your comments somehow convinced me that publishing Idle Reporter is an "evil" act (as you claim), and I decided to take it down and go become a Tibetan monk, people would still file complaints as they always have.
Don't get me wrong, I hate idling trucks too.
But I have been and will continue to be extremely vocal about how shitty it is to automate snitching.
> I went to war because the HN mods
this is an entirely ridiculous statement
> I will absolutely act in good faith and not game the system, but only as long as the mods do that too. As soon as the mods do that in a thread, all bets are off. Could not care less if I get banned for defending myself in such a situation.