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This is great: fast, interesting content, comments, voting, but... I can't do anything until I get an invite.

Tedious.

This invite only model sucks an 18-metre radius dog anus. We've seen it far too many times before. It's really boring and overdone and needs to die. Seriously, just let us in.

And I know what you're thinking, "Wow, this comment is super-obnoxious and we don't want this kind of person in here", but check my karma: it's pretty good. You've just crossed a line.

The problem here is I'm getting old and one day I'm going to die and I only have so much breath left in my body, so I don't have the time or the patience for your infuriating invite only model.

Please: stop arsing around and open it up.

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I have no dog in this fight, but

  check my karma: it's pretty good. You've just crossed a line.

What does that have to do with anything? You're not wrong that your comment is super obnoxious, so if you're aware of the issue... why not just not?

(I'm sure that the response would be "the invite-only model merits being a jerk in response", but given the topic is community it feels like believing something that self-serving/self-perpetuating of malbehavior ought to be disqualifying.)

Tildes is a heavily moderated community with strict guidelines. Right now it doesn't have the advanced moderation tools required to accommodate an unlimited number of people while still enforcing quality content and civil interactions.

Anyway, you haven't got an invite yet, send an email to mrbig033@protonmail.com asking for invite code. Please include your Hacker News username in the message. We'll be happy to have you!

Tildes is a nice community. We don't tolerate assholes. If deimorz lets you in, please do better than this comment.

This could also be described as being cliquish, or an echo chamber.

I've found Tildes to be welcoming to a wide variety of ideas, opinions and world views.

We're hostile to trolls, saboteurs, personal attacks, self-promotion and repeated empty or trivial junk comments.

If it's cliquish to discourage activity that makes social spaces miserable, then that's the kind of clique I'd like to belong to.

Personal attacks and derision of my point of view were what I experienced right before being called a troll and banned.

Its unfortunate that some social spaces are uncomfortable with divergent viewpoints.

Sounds like Tildes is not the right community for you.

Exactly. Not as wide of a variety of ideas, opinions and world views as you make it out to be.

Or maybe it is wide, and your opinions are just really out there (or you really were in fact an asshole.).

If everyone keeps calling you out, it's possible the problem isn't with everyone. I'm not saying that's always the case, I'm just pointing out the odds aren't in your favour.

Perhaps. But culling an invite-only community tends to result in an echo chamber.

I don't remember how many bans there have been on Tildes to date but it's either two or three, and they're always a big deal. So I don't know about your definition of "culling".

Culling means the removal of something with undesirable traits.

And when the mod locks an account without explanation, I'm sure that the community doesn't notice.

> Culling means the removal of something with undesirable traits.

You just defined "moderation". Just because you call it culling doesn't make it so. And your bad-faith approach in this thread makes me think if you were indeed banned from Tildes (which I'm starting to doubt), it was the right call.

Question yourself.

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