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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.
Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by dang on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:53PM (#22218985)
No, someone emailed to complain about it.
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.
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.

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.