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Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by theturtletalks on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:49PM (#34018447)
The original title is a TIFU post and I don't think those are allowed on HN.

The title is not misleading since most companies will ban you if you do a chargeback. The thing to note here is that a chargeback was done against the Google Store and the Gmail account was banned.

My goal wasn't to editorialize, I just wanted to let people know that their Gmail account was at risk if they did a chargeback against any of Google's services. This was new information to me and a lot of people on this thread.

Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by coffee33go on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:39PM (#34019162)
Perhaps you could have 's/will/may'
Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by hunter2_ on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:49PM (#34019311)
I think if you wanted to "Tell HN" about Google's terms of service (which might very well include that a chargeback gets your entire account banned), that's fine, you could do that by leaving the URL field empty or setting it to a better source than a single anecdote. You could even link to the anecdote from the text field. But as it stands, there's a mismatch between the title and TFA.
Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by dang on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:09PM (#34020433)
> The original title is a TIFU post and I don't think those are allowed on HN.

Why did you think that?

> My goal wasn't to editorialize, I just wanted to let people know that their Gmail account was at risk if they did a chargeback against any of Google's services. This was new information to me and a lot of people on this thread.

Sure, and I appreciate your good intention (it was new to me too). But if you want to say what you think is important about an article, you should do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by theturtletalks on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:41AM (#34038099)
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll be more cognizant of titles and links in the future.
Re:Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your ... by dang on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:44PM (#34041131)
Appreciated!