Comment by dang
2 days ago
Please don't make posts consisting of quotes and nothing else. HN is a supposed to be a site for curious conversation. It's not hard to see how posts like this interrupt that and bog it down - imagine someone at a dinner party* reading entire paragraphs like this out loud.
(* I don't know why I said "dinner party", since I don't go to those, the conversation usually isn't good, and they aren't my idea of fun, but oh well, it makes the point)
It definitely bogs things down. I would have preferred even an AI summary of the text, granted that it was accompanied by additional commentary to tie that to the subject at hand, rather than dumping in text with the assumption that the reader will understand the implicit connection.
Since you have now shadowbanned my comments from the site, I'm guessing you won't read this, so it's probably safe to point out that you are a useless, whiny fag who desperately needs to get out of his mom's basement and get a life.
I don't know if this will help or not, but I didn't shadowban you. (I wouldn't post a moderation reply and at the same time ban the account without saying so; that would be incongruent.)
What happened is that, independently of my reply, HN's software started killing your posts because your account had crossed some thresholds at which the software starts doing that.
Like I said, it may be a distinction without a difference to you, but that's what happened.
I don't really understand your point. We should reject ideas that make us feel like we have to sit through a monologue at a dinner party?
We should find more interesting ways to communicate ideas than lengthy recitation.