Hacker News: frmrtntn

New comment by frmrtntn in "Account bans on Reddit"

frmrtntn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:52:19 +0000

It's the auto-moderator. For example, I got my first multi-day ban for quoting this line from the film Commando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsE2Qg50qo

The automod interpreted this as a threat of violence. My appeal was ignored.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Account bans on Reddit"

frmrtntn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:49:40 +0000

Yup, lost a 15 year account for multiple Rule 1 violations. All were either quotes from of a film, or obvious jokes. I got the final perm ban removed on appeal, at least allegedly, but my account remains banned and further appeals are straight up ignored. To add insult to injury, I made the mistake of logging in to an alt account on my phone and then that was banned too for evasion!

Reddit has already become an LLM-ridden cesspool as of late. What do they hope to accomplish by getting rid of long term users and making it difficult to onboard new, actual humans?

New comment by frmrtntn in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

frmrtntn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:26:00 +0000

Consultants are for decision based evidence making.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

frmrtntn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:23:17 +0000

Funny how all the Carney glazers seem to be MIA in this thread.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

frmrtntn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:14:15 +0000

The information needed to build a basic nuclear explosive device is rather easily available. Now go build one.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

frmrtntn — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:39:02 +0000

Because I coincidentally lost access to my main account recently (never put in the e-mail field lol) and had to make a new one. This is the same name with the vowels removed - so not just keyboard-mashed username.

Better to just believe everyone who disagrees with you must be a bot, though.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

frmrtntn — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:30:29 +0000

Century Initiative. Been living under a rock? Go check out who Mark Wiseman is, his relationship to Carney.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06"

frmrtntn — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:11:53 +0000

Have you ever used a Digitech Whammy pedal? I can definitely notice the latency on that. It's low enough to be playable, but the difference when A/Bing is stark.

New comment by frmrtntn in "Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com"

frmrtntn — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:56:24 +0000

Just had a 15 year account get permabanned for repeated auto-moderator false positives. For example, quoting an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie being interpreted as a "call to violence". Most appeals get ignored. The permaban appeal was approved, but the ban remains in place and I can't seem to reach anyone there to look into it.

I was pretty upset at first, but I'm starting to see the positives of no longer being able to comment. I spent way too much time getting worked up over pointless arguments. For whatever reason, Hacker News doesn't seem to produce the same impulse.