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Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster by dang on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:28PM (#46671264)
Please don't make posts consisting of quotes and nothing else. HN is a supposed to be a site for curious conversation. It's not hard to see how posts like this interrupt that and bog it down - imagine someone at a dinner party* reading entire parargraphs like this.

(* I don't know why I said "dinner party", since I don't go to those, the conversation usually isn't good, and they aren't my idea of fun, but oh well, it makes the point)

Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster by aisenik on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:21PM (#46671757)
I don't really understand your point. We should reject ideas that make us feel like we have to sit through a monologue at a dinner party?
Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster by dang on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:23PM (#46672274)
We should find more interesting ways to communicate ideas than lengthy recitation.
Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster by bahmboo on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:55PM (#46673837)
It definitely bogs things down. I would have preferred even an AI summary of the text, granted that it was accompanied by additional commentary to tie that to the subject at hand, rather than dumping in text with the assumption that the reader will understand the implicit connection.
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Re:America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster by dang on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:23AM (#46675336)
I don't know if this will help or not, but I didn't shadowban you. (I wouldn't post a moderation reply and at the same time ban the account without saying so; that would be incongruent.)

What happened is that, independently of my reply, HN's software started killing your posts because your account had crossed some thresholds at which the software starts doing that.

Like I said, it may be a distinction without a difference to you, but that's what happened.