I’m sure this conversation would have gone so much better in person, without all the cascading misunderstandings that are inherent in most written, low-bandwidth online communication.

I think I’m going to take another break from SN.

I hope you guys have fun here without people like me.

I'm sorry for how this conversation went, but when I ask you about a privacy leak and you respond with "what privacy leak?" while seemingly conveniently leaving out relevant details that you later reveal only after I press further, it doesn't look good.

That's what I'm chiding you for.

You can opt out of having your name displayed. You cannot opt out of being ranked.

Fair point, this should also be possible. I forgot about this.

Feel free to blame me for this. Not that I coded or designed it. But that I of all stackers have to tell you this. Shame on me.

FYI, I can probably show you comments where I supported @siggy47 during MSM. He was trying to hide, but the existing privacy settings made that impossible. I did not agree with all the decisions that were made at SN, which may also have been one of the reasons I left. Is that surprising to you?

You can opt-out, no?

Was the intent for SN to have zaps to be fully private?

Yes, as far as I’ve always considered it (no nyms attached to zaps).

You don't fight for something as retarded as how lit looks. You fight against suppression.

So if I downzap very old items that aren't on the frontpage, you will notice and then boost them to fight against suppression?

There is a privacy leak but it is only for the top spender.

Sounds like the one who needs privacy the most.

Honestly surprised you, of all stackers on here, are trying to justify a privacy leak, and even pretended there isn't one in #1532595 with "what privacy leak?" afaict.

To be clear, I don't really care about the privacy leak, just about the integrity of stackers.

The position of lit items is temporary. I didn't say anything about zap balances or discovery.

But I guess you mean we're fighting for discovery?

You in #1532229:

your gql scripts can answer your initial question

The initial question was this, afaict:

Who's downzapping everyone?

So I thought you were saying that we can see who is downzapping.

What about privacy? Shouldn't such a privacy leak be fixed? Are @k00b and @sox aware of this?

It's not like stackers will fight

Fight for what? The temporary position of items on a niche website?

I almost downzapped #1349267 because I was very annoyed by some very old post showing up at the top again, and it wasn't immediately clear. But then I realized I can just wait a few hours, or someone else is going to "fight" for me.

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I think it wasn't clear that I was replying to @Scoresby, not you.

I do think there's still genuinely good advice on reddit, though, it just depends on the topic, and I don't think it's related to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Samourai's absence from the community unironically prevented Bitcoin from being destroyed.

Can you explain how Samourai's presence in the community would have destroyed bitcoin?

see an example here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5482818.msg63551707#msg63551707

A reply for more context:

Look man, I don't know what you're trying to do here. Don't you have enough with 15 neutral color tags but basically saying you're a piece of shit? Now you want to open a rational debate by quoting someone who is going to die? If it's because Wasabi pays you to represent them on the forum, the best thing you can do is stop doing it. Otherwise you're just going to inspire more hate.

I don't think so, but 🤷‍♀️

I think I did, but I was referring to her bio, not here.

Since she didn't change it there, I assumed she'd considered it but decided against it, so I thought, "Why suggest the same thing again?"

Women are sometimes better left alone. 🙃

And a little suggestion: you could actually list articles like this, so it might be easier for stackers to look what's there.

+1

I love her smile at 0:58

Perhaps it's a good opportunity to convince some of the reddit lurkers to hang out with us here

Btw, there's a Stacker News Reddit community to do exactly that from one of my growth ideas that didn't go anywhere. We need to meet people where they are, and if they are on Reddit, we need to meet them there to bring them over slowly. You can take it over if you want.

No worries, I don’t expect anyone to know, I’ll just let them know when they need to

Something similar happened to me too with #948515

btw I don't work here anymore, see #1310102