Ask HN: What are some interesting 'HN profile, about me' texts?

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@dang will send you into a philosophical rabbit hole.

@tptacek reads the Gatsby.

@jacquesm is inviting you to take his angel money.

@patio11 will quickly dissolve imposter syndrome of emailing him for advice.

Most of these were from https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders though.

I am interested in more obscure ones.

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Always enjoyed Daniel Cussen's bio:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daniel-cussen

Looks like he's shadowbanned.

So what? Cussen is a member of the HN population I'd refer to as "colorful characters". Various combinations of coherent, incoherent, and non-traditional (offensive).

FWIW, my profile is one of the longer ones. I occasionally prune some garbage but as I discover things I like, I keep adding, adding, adding. I'm not sure what the upper bounds is on max length.

I also like toomuchtodo's profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=toomuchtodo

The worst profiles are those with negative and/or paranoid shit in them; there are a disappointingly high number of them.

I don't think he should be shadowbanned.

Policing abuse on HN is a tremendous undertaking. If you feel something is wrong, the staff here are responsive and happy to answer questions.

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