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Re:Tank Man by dang on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:43PM (#27397406)
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. These comments are beyond a dime-a-dozen, more like a nickle-a-thousand, and they're basically all the product of breathless internet user fantasy. HN users need to have a little more self-control than that if we're to preserve this site for interesting conversation. I've been trying to explain this to this community for years, so if I seem a little irritated and impatient, I hope you can understand why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I'm trying to figure out what happened (I don't keep track of these things while I'm asleep), but having taken a quick look so far I can tell you for sure that the flags were from legit, longstanding, entirely boring HN users. (Edit: I did not mean to insult those HN users. I meant that if people saw the list of usernames, they'd find it boring because there would be nothing sinister in it.)

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

Re:Tank Man by xupybd on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:26PM (#27398693)
Sounds like a rough start to the day. Might I suggest an extra coffee. Works for me when I get to work and everything is on fire.
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Re:Tank Man by dang on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:03PM (#27398475)
That breaks several of the site guidelines and is also one hell of a goalpost move. Please don't.
Re:Tank Man by birdyrooster on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:50PM (#27398918)
When the topic of discussion is censorship and disinformation online (that includes HN), no one is pulling out astroturfing as rhetoric to shutdown a conversation, it is literally part of the conversation. A moderator coming in here to tamp down on our discussion of disinformation is ironic and self-defeating. This conversation was interesting until you showed up telling us to stop.