I rarely visit Reddit or any other panopticon (this one however - HN - keeps tricking me into posting)
Anyway, I recently contacted the mods of deGoogle to see if they would like to add to their side bar the ad-free search engine I have been working on all the time for a couple months now
They basically said they didn't trust me (again, no karma) but asked me to post on the board to see feedback
The post quickly drew ire from a user who accused me of disrespecting the community (although he later calmed down once he learned that the mods had "given their blessing" for me to post)
Anyway, even though the post largely received positive feedback and was really upvoted (and user retention from that post has been amazing), the mods ended up dismissing me in a pretty cold way
That's why I fail to feel sympathy for anyone involved in these "villages". As a "stranger", I fail to comprehend their struggle for fairness and virtue. As a side note, HN is starting to feel a bit alienating too. Lately, I find myself not posting for fear of being downvoted - or worse - downvoted and search indexed
Here is the post I am talking about anyway (subreddit is currently on strike)
Thanks for the free accusation. I did try to join the community because I don't want to simply post and leave. For example, I posted on the sister subreddit deMicrosoft and engaged other users on how to best set up my daughter's first linux PC
I suppose you failed to read the bit where the mods specifically asked me to create the post. Either way, the overwhelming majority of the village enjoyed the post
We've banned this account for crossing into personal attack. That's not allowed here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Anyway, I recently contacted the mods of deGoogle to see if they would like to add to their side bar the ad-free search engine I have been working on all the time for a couple months now
They basically said they didn't trust me (again, no karma) but asked me to post on the board to see feedback
The post quickly drew ire from a user who accused me of disrespecting the community (although he later calmed down once he learned that the mods had "given their blessing" for me to post)
Anyway, even though the post largely received positive feedback and was really upvoted (and user retention from that post has been amazing), the mods ended up dismissing me in a pretty cold way
That's why I fail to feel sympathy for anyone involved in these "villages". As a "stranger", I fail to comprehend their struggle for fairness and virtue. As a side note, HN is starting to feel a bit alienating too. Lately, I find myself not posting for fear of being downvoted - or worse - downvoted and search indexed
Here is the post I am talking about anyway (subreddit is currently on strike)
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/13qpzy4/a_new_sea...