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sctbon Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

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sctbon Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

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Edit: I see we've asked you many times not to post like this, and saying that we'd ban you if you did it again, so we have. If you'd like to be unbanned you can email hn@ycombinator.com.

sctbon I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money

You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments and we'll ban the account if it continues. Could you please review the guidelines? The internet has plenty of snark already; we want to hear what thoughtful and insightful things you have to share.

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sctbon Agony of an African Programmer (2014)

We've banned this account for posting mostly unsubstantive comments. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start using the site as intended.

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sctbon Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

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sctbon Agony of an African Programmer (2014)

We're banning this account, but please email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to keep participating and we'd be happy to offer some feedback.

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sctbon Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

That's more handwaving and name calling than we're here for. Could you please increase the information-to-inflammation ratio when commenting in threads like this?

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sctbon Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

You've been posting a flurry of unsubstantive and flamey comments. Could you please review the guidelines and stop?

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sctbon Beyond Meat S-1

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720814 and marked it off-topic.

sctbon AJIT, a ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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sctbon Stephen Wolfram Version 12 Launches Today (and It’s a Big Jump for Wolfram

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674966.

sctbon Beyond Meat S-1

Thanks! We've updated the link from https://sec.report/Document/1655210/000162828018014471/beyon....

sctbon Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people

Thanks. The lite version is nice but we'll go with the canonical version (updated from http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_db08b33213d74c0d498afe6dc04c...).

sctbon High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

You can't make personal attacks here. Since we've asked you several times before to please follow the guidelines we've banned the account.

sctbon Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’

Could you please review the guidelines and start following them? You've been posting a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments.

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sctbon US Wages Finally Get Back to Where They Were in 1973

Could you please not post combo uncivil-unsubstantive comments? We've asked you already to follow the guidelines so perhaps you could review them.

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sctbon A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters

Your comments have been falling short of the standard of discourse here. Could you please review the guidelines and then follow them?

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sctbon What we've learned from making Recurse Center 50% women, trans, and non-binary

It doesn't matter what you believe. This forum isn't for diminishing and making fun of people. If you post like this again we'll ban the account.

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sctbon Mercury – Banking built for startups

Indeed. Thanks!

sctbon Mercury – Banking built for startups

Aside: we've removed “Show HN” from the title because it's for stuff you've built.

sctbon AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption

Thanks! The RFC markup is so respectful of text I don't feel bad for updating it from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8452.txt.

sctbon Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (2018) [pdf]

A small discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626816.

sctbon The Healing Power of Gardens

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

sctbon How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch

You've been posting a lot unsubstantive, uncivil, or flamebait comments. We've asked you already to please stop, and we'll ban the account if you won't.

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sctbon Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts

Thanks! We've moved the comments there.

sctbon Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

Could you please follow the guidelines more closely?

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Additionally, this is a pattern with the account that needs to change:

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it.

We count alternate accounts as well, so they all get banned unless all improve.

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sctbon A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

sctbon A Student-Debt Crisis Hits Hardest at Historically Black Colleges

If someone has an alternate link for this story we can update it.