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New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Do you feel excluded from HN/Lobste.rs/Reddit?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:43:01 +0000

How did you measure that they're the cheapest and easiest? And cheapest and easiest for whom?

I did and I did.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Do you feel excluded from HN/Lobste.rs/Reddit?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:39:17 +0000

> Firstly is that actually true?

I created a new account, posted legit content, and none of the content appeared until ~5 days later.

> it will not kill you

How do you know it will not kill me?

What if I don't have to pay this month's rent and launching the site today instead of five days later amounts to $500? Both of these are true for me right now. The creators of HN can't possibly know the cost to a user to post something.

How did you estimate that "it will not kill me" also means it will not kill my spirits to not try again? How do you measure this cost?

> Nothing springs to mind that is that important that:

Merely because nothing springs to mind isn't proof that no such thing exists.

> What specifically did you have in mind?

I have different things in mind for different sites.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Why is it assumed to be harder to bootstrap a Reddit-type site today?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:55:41 +0000

What's your definition of a genuine user?

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Do you feel excluded from HN/Lobste.rs/Reddit?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:52:37 +0000

These measures aren't the only way to stop spam.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Why is it assumed to be harder to bootstrap a Reddit-type site today?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:25:46 +0000

> but content is king.

I would like to see content is king go up against cash is king in a site.

Ask HN: Do you feel excluded from HN/Lobste.rs/Reddit?

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:09:06 +0000

HackerNews makes it hard to post anonymously. If you signup and try to post a lot of text or god forbid a Show HN you spent weeks building, it shadow bans you for at least five days. It forces you to wait before you can participate.

Lobste.rs doesn't allow signups without invitation. What if you don't know personally someone who is a user there to invite you?

Many Reddit channels don't let you post unless the account has 10-25 points of karma and is ten days old. This doesn't let you share something important with many people anonymously and quickly.

Do these policies of online forums make you feel excluded? Do you wish these sites ran differently? How would your ideal online forum run?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746079

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New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:51:35 +0000

I'm not sure I understood everything you said.

How do you determine a user is an idiot or not when good ideas look like bad ideas initially? Experts can have blind spots.

The option for reputationless discussion should always remain open in my opinion.

> how high is the cost really?

The cost can be proportional to the proof of work.

Everything has a cost. How about determining the cost and providing means to pay for it? Paying works for many things in the world. It works for ads, for example.

Why must the cost be annoying a human by requiring reputation instead of a monetary cost? How is annoying a human a better solution than letting people pay? Do you really think pissing people off will stop them from expressing what they want? It might be more likely that people will express what they want, nobody will hear them, and they'll leave, taking good ideas with them.

Just as there is a cost to moderation, there is a cost to losing good ideas. How about letting a free market decide?

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:11:45 +0000

How is Vale's memory safety approach different than CCured?

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:25:51 +0000

Why is it not really suitable to a lot of applications?

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: What is your preferred approach to mask your email address?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:20:14 +0000

Figuring out where the spam came from doesn't prevent the spam coming. I would prefer a solution that prevents the spam from coming.

I built such a system. I made it available and nobody used it or cared. It works great for me.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Employee Rating System"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:11:01 +0000

I'm curious about the other half of this question. Are any engineers in need of an employer rating system?

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "What's the problem that SSH tunneling is trying to solve?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:03:39 +0000

The point of that tunnel may be to prevent entities that are inside the VPN from sniffing cleartext RDP traffic. If an attacker gets VPN access you want to limit their ability to do damage inside the VPN.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "{n} times faster than C"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:03:19 +0000

I'd be curious to learn why CPUs don't have conditional move speculation.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:28:41 +0000

I don't know if IP range reputation is part of SMTP but I wish sending email worked without it.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:24:17 +0000

Behaving better isn't the only outcome. Another outcome is leaving the service permanently.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "PhD Simulator"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:33:29 +0000

Looking forward to a Job Search simulator.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "PhD Simulator"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:23:11 +0000

Or your advisor accepts a job at a company in another state in year 2...

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "What programming language has the most beautiful syntax?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:03:31 +0000

I don't find the parentheses beautiful.

New comment by Lk7Of3vfJS2n in "Ask HN: Is your blog/website behind a CDN?"

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:07:36 +0000

I'd like to see dynamic code running on a CDN.

Job Has 685 Applicants

Lk7Of3vfJS2n — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:42:00 +0000

https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/toggl-database-reliability-engineer-2

I wish job postings and application tracking systems showed the number of applicants in a position. Then I would know if it's worth putting time into applying or if it's a waste of time.

I want job application software to show more info about what's going on.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572758

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