Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?

Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by bayonetz on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:21AM (#16868080)

@xiphias comment shouldn’t have been flagged. The same priority-based booking nonsense happens in our open floor plan. Similarly, you need to be important enough to have priority. We love touting how “we are so flat hierarchy that our CEO doesn’t even have a office!”...except he just has a conference room permanently booked instead.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by detaro on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:27AM (#16868130)

The specific comment isn't flagged (it would be marked as such otherwise), the user has been banned.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by Diederich on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:59PM (#16868940)

Apparently here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725493 Certainly not a productive comment.

A quick scan of that users's history seems to indicate fairly reasonable stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xiphias&next=1582220... (among others)

Given a lot of other reasonable posts, (apparently) one low value comment seems to be able to get a user shadowbanned. That strikes me as a bit excessive.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by sanderjd on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:49PM (#16873197)

I see this from time to time and it frustrates me. I would love it if people above a karma threshold could vouch for shadowbanned users with a recent history of more constructive comments.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by DanBC on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:51AM (#16876363)

If you click the timestamp of the comment there should be a [vouch] link.

If you've checked the comment history and the comments seem ok I guess you can email the mods to let them know.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by sanderjd on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:57PM (#16881386)

Ah, you're totally right, I bet an email would work in particularly unfortunate cases.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by Diederich on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:45AM (#16876311)

> vouch for shadowbanned users

I have vouched for perhaps hundreds of shadowbanned comments, is that what you mean? Or vouching for a user directly?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an o... by sanderjd on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:56PM (#16881382)

A user directly. I don't think vouching for the comments does anything because they're already shadowbanned. (I may be wrong.)

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