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Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by Retric on Saturday November 09, 2024 @11:57AM (#42095435)
That’s not how things operate here. Note how your complaint isn’t in the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The site encourages people to delete unproductive comments that haven’t been responding to as it improves the reading experiences for 3rd parties. Which is one of the reasons there’s a big old delete button and you can edit posts for a full hour.

Adding “Edit:” is important for clarity when a post has been responded to, without that it’s just clutter.

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Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by MichaelZuo on Saturday November 09, 2024 @01:08PM (#42095831)
I’m not going to substantially engage with you. Period.
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Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by Retric on Monday November 11, 2024 @08:06PM (#42111941)
You never did meaningfully engage anywhere in the thread.

That’s the issue.

I’m not convinced you’re capable of meaningful dialogue.

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Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by MichaelZuo on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:55AM (#42125657)
Nobody’s going to trust the word of a proven deceiver… but if you want to burn away your account then I won’t stop you.
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