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Re:The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, th... by dang on Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:37PM (#18109873)
Would you please stop creating accounts for every comment or two you post? This is in the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need to have some consistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community at all, and that would be a very different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely. Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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Re:The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, th... by interfixus on Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:47PM (#18109911)
Algolia: "No stories matching by:dang community identity"
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Re:The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, th... by dang on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:28AM (#18110424)
Whoops - fixed now.

(I made a change to the HN moderation software that caused it to start escaping characters it shouldn't, and haven't fixed the bug yet.)

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Re:The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, th... by siberianbear on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:05AM (#18110170)
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Dan clearly made some sort of typo in that URL.
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Re:The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, th... by interfixus on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:26AM (#18110242)
Apparently anything can - and most often will - attract downvotes here. Not only controversial or negatively framed or opinionated or poorly stated or patently incorrect comments, but plain, simple, incontrovertible statements of fact as my Algolia one above.

To the extent that I sometimes wonder if someone out there is going a bit too systematically about it.

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