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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by dekhn on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:15PM (#33628844)
You haven't asked me repeatedly to stop doing this. It's the first time. I see far worse crap from other users all the time. It kind of looks like you're protecting paulg and elon from criticism.

You did shut my account down previously but it was determined you were mistaken.

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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by dang on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:09PM (#33629767)
There were at least these occasions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249117 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29895865 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29346858 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17682627 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668442 (April 2014)

Since you replied to most of those, I assume you saw them.

> You did shut my account down previously but it was determined you were mistaken.

We weren't mistaken. We rate limited your account correctly because you were breaking the site guidelines. I removed the rate limit because you emailed and asked us, and because at that point I looked at your recent history and it seemed your comments had been fine for a while.

When we take a rate limit off, and then an account reverts to its old guidelines-breaking habits, we put the rate limit back on. Please fix this so we don't have to. It's nothing personal—we're just trying to protect the forum from poisoning itself.

This has zero to do with protecting any famous individual from criticism—if you or anyone else doubts this, just do some comment searches using HN Search (there's a search box at bottom of each page here) and you'll soon disabuse yourself of that illusion.

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