There’s a saying here in Germany that roughly goes “If you’re at a dinner with 1 Nazi and 9 people who say nothing, that’s a dinner with 10 Nazis”. That’s how it is with HN. They can’t hide behind “just some commenters” when they’ve got years long harrasment campaigns and then update HN’s code in order to get arround Hector’s attempts to stem the tide.
The comments are all gone now. But as Hector points out, it takes weeks or months for the moderators to actually do anything. In my opinion they don’t get credit for removing these comments once the threads are stale.
And then when people try to limit HN traffic to their site and stop the harrasment campaign, Dang updates HN to order to circumvent it.
The Asahi team got a massive amount of harassment from HN, it took HN weeks to remove any comments, months to remove them all, but they were very keen on getting around Hector’s HN block.
There’s a saying here in Germany that roughly goes “If you’re at a dinner with 1 Nazi and 9 people who say nothing, that’s a dinner with 10 Nazis”. That’s how it is with HN. They can’t hide behind “just some commenters” when they’ve got years long harrasment campaigns and then update HN’s code in order to get arround Hector’s attempts to stem the tide.
The comments are all gone now. But as Hector points out, it takes weeks or months for the moderators to actually do anything. In my opinion they don’t get credit for removing these comments once the threads are stale.
And then when people try to limit HN traffic to their site and stop the harrasment campaign, Dang updates HN to order to circumvent it.
The Asahi team got a massive amount of harassment from HN, it took HN weeks to remove any comments, months to remove them all, but they were very keen on getting around Hector’s HN block.