Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by dang on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:22PM (#25795051)

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, as well as posting a ton of unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts that do those things (regardless of which politics they support or oppose). I don't want to ban you, but we have to protect this place, and political battle and unsubstantive comments are the two biggest problems.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by x86ARMsRace on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:20PM (#25817169)

Worth mentioning here that the reply in question is dishonest, bad faith argument.

All that this person did was tell me I was wrong, then restate my exact point that the service went down due to hitting a capacity limit. Really the only difference between what they said and what I said was the lack of civility, and the additional assertion that Signal needed to be shutdown.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by rriepe on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:23PM (#25797981)

"But we have to protect this place" makes a great epitaph for rhetoric on the internet.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by dang on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:58PM (#25798302)

"Rhetoric" on a large, public internet forum is of extremely low quality so I think HN's fine with that transaction.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by rriepe on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:50PM (#25799131)

I'll knock it off. But that includes when they actually do come for Signal and Bitcoin.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down? by tobib on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:18PM (#25799328)

Is there a way for users to block individual users to reduce some of that noise?

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