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0 pointsandrewmcwatters3y ago0 comments

If you’re going to include my words, which I chose to remove, go ahead and post the whole thing instead of being rude and taking my post out of context by only posting the part you wanted everyone to see.

Don’t do that and tell me I’ve deprived people of context. You've already taken away from otherwise valid discussion about development with an industry and why this sentiment has proliferated by pushing my post to the bottom.

I could have also simply replaced the sentence with, "I don't like it when people repeat that Safari is the new IE," but HN doesn't have a recorded policy of restoring posts from downweighing.

If this is the only offending sentence, it seems like pretty shallow moderation to me.

“Edit out swipes” is a part of HN guidelines. I removed the post because clearly moderation found it fulminating, I agree it was, and now you seem to think you own my words.

If you have a problem with edits after silent moderation and believe this to be abuse, which contradicts current guidelines, just update the guidelines to include such a statement.

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dang3y ago

Sorry for the delay in replying to this! I appreciate that you were intending to follow the guidelines and apologize that I didn't pick up on that and instead interpreted your edit as abusive. I thought you were rage-editing, which is sort of the message-board equivalent of turning over the chessboard and storming off. That happens quite a bit and I erroneously pattern-matched your comment to that behavior.

The "edit out swipes" guideline is intended more along the lines of "please edit out any guideline-breaking swipey bits from your comment, while leaving the substantive point intact."

pvg3y ago

“Edit out swipes” is a part of HN guidelines. I removed the post because clearly moderation found it fulminating, I agree it was

Perhaps it's unclear but the guideline there is about taking that stuff out before you post. The whole set of subsequent problems just goes away entirely if you do that which should be straightforward given there's agreement on the root cause - the posting of yelly comments.

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