HTTP 402: Payment Required

Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by Techies4Trump on Saturday February 01, 2020 @09:21PM (#22214731)

I don't think that was the original intended use.

I believe the intention of this status code was to allow the application to negotiate payment using some not-yet-invented payment technology.

The browser would presumably shell out to some kind of local wallet or bank website to authorize the payment, all in a split second without the user noticing.

What you're describing is the typical paywall type page where a user is asked for payment.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by dang on Sunday February 02, 2020 @12:11AM (#22215262)

This is a perfectly legit comment but can you please not use a trollish username on HN? It ends up trolling every thread it posts to, and whether they're right to or not, some people are inevitably going to be provoked by it.

If you'd like to change the account name, we'd be happy to help with that at [email protected].

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by klez on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:59AM (#22215975)

Funny thing is, I wouldn't have noticed the account name if you didn't point it out.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by dang on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:49AM (#22216122)

Others would, though. That's the problem with the long tail: it only takes one or two provokeables to end up with an offtopic mess.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by lightedman on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:52AM (#22217156)

Looks like you're the only one provoked by the name, dang.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by dang on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:53PM (#22218985)

No, someone emailed to complain about it.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by lightedman on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:56PM (#22219362)

E-mails mean jack and shit. Is the disruption happening ON SITE? No. The whiner e-mailing behind people's backs like this is Elementary School should be summarily ignored. It's a fucking HANDLE for crying out loud. Anyone letting a fictitious handle bother them doesn't belong on the internet, PERIOD. And you should be doubly-so kicked off moderation staff for pandering to such absolute childish nonsense.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by dang on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:34PM (#22227335)

I think you're mistaken about the emails. If one HN user gets enough activation energy to email us, the odds are that they represent a whole group of users who are having the same experience, most of whom won't email. So it pays to take a single email seriously. Of course sometimes the emails are more...eccentric, but those are different cases.

I'm not going to count the rest of this post as a guidelines violation because I understand how things like this can drive a person up a wall and we all go on tilt sometimes. But I do want to ask you to make sure not to post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22082038 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22068236. Those are the kind of thing we ban accounts for, and I don't want to have to ban you again. Most of your recent comments have been fine for HN.

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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by lightedman on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:48PM (#22231543)

"But I do want to ask you to make sure not to post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22082038"

Oh, I can't tell the truth about what's happening in my state due to OTHER states? Gracias. I didn't even call anyone names. I stated a plain fact and you let butt-hurt people called out on their BS have the advantage.

You are beyond disappointing as a moderator.

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