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Thanks for understanding. I should have read the comments more closely and normally do, but I was on the defensive after the comment seemed to accuse us of killing comments, or at least make assumptions that we did or would do that.

OK, well there seem to have been a couple of false positives and perhaps a glitch in one case, which we'll look into. Sorry about that. In the case of the quote from the HSI document, perhaps that text you copied/pasted was LLM-enhanced (the comment was classified as genai according to all the methods we use, but of course no approach is 100% accurate).

False positives are going to happen, no matter how much we try to make our systems infallible, and you're welcome to email us if any comments of yours get killed and aren't quickly vouched by other users.

I can still confirm that your comments weren't being killed via any deliberate moderator intervention.

Some of your comments were killed because our software classified the text as genai. That's not allowed on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268257 and marked it off topic.

Please don't accuse people of writing AI-generated comments. If you suspect it, please email us: hn@ycombinator.com.

It took me a while to figure out what you meant, but, done now :)

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Previously...

LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490099 - July 2025 (4 comments)

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It was classified by our software as genai, which is explicitly against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#genai

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633.

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Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You/we have little idea how much effort went into the project or why there was a glitch on the production server at that time. The commenter’s story suggests they have been putting a lot of effort into learning skills and building their project for years. They didn’t name the site in their comment. They were making no claims about it being in production or bug-free. You hunted it from their profile then named it in the comment, apparently as a dunk. If you wanted to help them, you could have worded it much differently.

HN is for people who like to build things, and who like to support others who build things, and it’s not cool to sneer at others for mistakes or make dismissive assumptions about their effort.

We updated the main URL to this and added other related links to the thread's top text.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186933 and marked it off topic.

Be kind. Don't be snarky.

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I updated the URL to https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-....

The guidelines ask:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Fixed now!

Edit: changed the URL to the original one, which is required according to the HN guidelines – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212878

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Touché I guess, but…

> Seriously. How often do we get a story that intersects power generation and volcanos?

Exactly! But your comment and its lame subthread, which all had nothing to do with the article, sat at the top of the thread for hours, drowning out substantive comments that were relevant to the article.

I wouldn’t bother replying if it just slipped down the bottom of the thread. But keeping discussions high-quality and on-topic is my job here and that means reminding people to post thoughtful, substantive comments, not “whatever comes to mind, regardless of how it will come across”. We especially need longer term/more prominent users to set the example, please.

If you’d written that (or, a version of that) as your initial comment, it would have been much better :)

A one line comment that contains the phrases “no small amount of satisfaction and schadenfreude” and "shilled by the usual 'Apple supremacist' suspects” has a sneery, snarly energy to it that’s clearly outside what the guidelines are asking of us.

> Now I'm curious what nerve I hit

It’s nothing to do with hitting a nerve (and really, the suggestion has a touch of pathologizing about it). This is bog standard moderation of the kind we‘ve done routinely for many years.

This site exists for curious conversation and substantive discussion of topics. Schadenfreude, which literally means taking pleasure in others' misfortune, is never what we want here. It's fine to criticize things. We just need you to do it thoughtfully and congenially.

Please avoid generic tangents and swipes on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> I feel no small amount of satisfaction and schadenfreude

Please don't fulminate or sneer (or whatever else this is) on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something much better than this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion of your own work. The guidelines cover this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Stop acting like an asshole to people on HN. These comments are absolutely not cool here. We've had to ask you before to observe the guidelines, and these comments in this thread are worse than ever. If you keep up this kind of activity, we'll have to ban the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sure, and there's a place for discussion about that (though whether HN can host such a discussion without it spiraling into a hellish flamewar is not something we can be confident about).

That aside, in this context the issue is that the comment very much didn't set aside the politics and the personalities.