Please just delete all my comments. Including this one.

Surely there might be some portion of the 1,200 people who posted today that may want to delete their submission in the future.

Allowing them to do so would be civil don’t you think?

(There may also be those who figured out there is a risk here and just avoid sharing anything anymore, but that’s another story).

As expressed here by Paul Graham https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 and enforced with blind loyalty by Daniel Gackle who repeatedly refuses to delete my stuff instead spending his nights examining and debating the minute details of my words deciding which should or should not be deleted.

If this misguided idea never existed, HN would be like all normal web services, the user would have a delete button and my life would be better.

But, the idea and the power position it allows are here, and my life is changed for the worse.

כשאנשים קטנים מטילים צל ארוך זה סימן שהשמש שוקעת

I’ve been a member of this community for a decade plus.

I’ve used two accounts: TotlolRon and ronilan.

I recently figured this community is not good for me and I want to leave.

I tried to delete all my content (comments and posts) as one can do in other communities (i.e. reddit, Twitter), but I can’t. There is no technical way for me to do it and the moderators are refusing to help.

If anyone reading this is willing and or able to help make this happen - I’d be thankful.

Thanks, Ron

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583808

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That would match the current German version below and makes sense as languages evolved from same tree.

To the point:

1. Obviously the meaning of words change over time.

2. If this difference in metaphors has real bearing on how people act than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, at least in its weak form, stands. That is something worth paying attention to....

Awareness is gained by that action that differs between languages.

In Hebrew awareness is gained with emotion (put heart) - שים לב

Any native speakers of other languages able to chime in? Sapir-Whorf revived?

Edit: used word awareness to clarify what is being gained.

Anyway...

This summer & fall I wrote a JS core lib and a set of compatible packages that together greatly simplify the creation of terminal based node apps and games (in the realm of blessed, blessed-contrib and ink, but with no dependencies and with a novel api/architecture)

I got into it because my son did this node project where an animated car drove in a forest of cellular automata generated trees. Yah. You read it right. Things spiraled from there...

It is not a small project and it is pretty close to release form. I’ve used the lib and components to write a couple of small but non-trivial things. So, yes, it works.

In December, though, I stopped actively working on it. There are various reasons. One of which is that there is snow on the mountains. There are other reasons, none of which is code related.

More curious? More question. Cheers.

P.S - After reading more into this idea I think that setting high ratio goal of Minimum-to-Median (75%???) might be a direction worth exploring... we have an excellent, proactive provincial government in BC, maybe I’ll go look for the suggestion box...