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I tried to post about SN on hacker.news and my post was immediately flagged

Do you know why?

I posted a link to one of the Tether pieces I wrote.

They were very reasonable, but this is still a symptom of what SN fixes, I think. Forums like Hacker News have to be careful not to allow content from other forums because it may lead to lots of posting trying to cannibalize their readers (which to an extent was what I was trying to do).

If we are able to shift the world to a pay-to-post model, perhaps this isn't as much of an issue. Although, I admit this is a difficult problem to solve.

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I think a subtle issue here is that they see SN as another forum, but some of the posts here are more like blog posts than forum posts.

Not sure how to thread that needle, but I always did think that SN's most viable growth path is as a Substack alternative, and as a Disqus-style plugin.

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Cunt bags

there is or used to user named hn or hacker news

update: last post was on Jan 4, https://stacker.news/hn/all

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I think @ek ran that bot. Now that he doesn't work for SN he probably didn't think the bot was worth running anymore.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ek 2h

It would be worth running if there weren’t breaking API changes every few months. @hn broke because of crossposting. @nitter is still running because the API for comments didn't change.

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The mods on hacker news are cunt bags?

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12 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 11h

That's like saying the plane crashed due to gravity. Wondering what their fake reason was. Or if there was one.

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The plane crashed because the pilot was female

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @ealvar39 10h -134 sats

that's stupid