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[Hồ Chí Minh]

It's fun to turn Show Dead on for your account and troll New, because you find stuff like users sperging because HN doesn't delete user accounts
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users making a second account to further annoy jannies
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and threatening to continue sperging until they get their way
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There's a really special blend of entitlement and exceptionalism on HN, and sometimes it's even amusing.

Edit: Will grab screenshots since those links don't show anything without an account and setting Show Dead

He can just email hn@ycombinator.com and they will ban it. Or rename it to a random username. Or both. It's mentioned in the FAQ. No one is even seeing this spam. What a moron.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

He can just email hn@ycombinator.com and they will ban it. Or rename it to a random username. Or both. It's mentioned in the FAQ. No one is even seeing this spam. What a moron.

Agreed, I tried to find context for what they are sperging about, but I can't find anything. They made an account and a single submission with a comment, then went right into "ban me, coward!"

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

A tranny who worked for IBM before fucking up his life died, so the black bar was instated. Never forget that Terry Davis' death wasn't acknowledged with it, but no reliable source verified his death, unlike fucking Wikipedia:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470 (archive)

Anyway, the comments are interesting. Here's someone remarking on Virtual Reality brainwashing:

These exhibit Poe's Law in full force:

These flagged comments are clearly discussing trans widows:

This fuckwit starts an argument:

If you're inclined to denigrate transgender people, I encourage you to consider that they are trying to lead an honest life.

I love the irony in using this phrase with trannies.

I doubt these comments in response will stay up for long, considering how they violate orthodoxy in pointing out how promoted and intrusive tranny rights are:

Just going to keep pointing out that human beings have very little sexual dimorphism compared to the other great apes, and that any difference is any sport that does not actually employ the genitals is probably more down to food access and/or training disparities than actual “significant” biological factors.

Fuck, every single religious movement is like this, isn't it, with blatant dismissal of reality?

 

[Geranium]

Anyway, the comments are interesting

Everything even mildly critical is getting nuked, and top-level comments mentioning the smear campaign Conway carried out for years against Michael Bailey have been removed (they don't even show up as "[flagged]"), even though Conway proudly detailed all this on his official academic website.

Edit: HN when anyone suggests a troon is anything other than a saint:

 

[quaawaa]

These flagged comments are clearly discussing trans widows:

What the flagged comment says:

This comment is unflagged in your screenshot but is now flagged:

This comment is flagged in your screenshot but was vouched:

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Other flagged comments:

This one appears to be pro-troon:


Reply with more flagged comments:

and another (troon raging about J.K. Rowling):

Spoiler: Image he's mad about

Regarding the Wikipedia article asking for a citation for the death:

Spoiler: Image in comment

Not yet flagged but probably will be soon:

Everything even mildly critical is getting nuked, and several top-level comments mentioning the smear campaign Conway carried out for years against Michael Bailey have been removed (they don't even show up as "[flagged]"), even though Conway proudly detailed all this on his official academic website.

The comment you're referring to:

 

[Geranium]

I compared the ratio of flagged (effectively deleted) comments to the other ~1000-point story from the past week, Apple's AI announcement:

18% the comments, but 766% more flagged ones. Good to see autistic tech bros with weird fetishes standing together.

Edit: lol

 

[Green Pocket]

Meanwhile, in the comments of an entirely unrelated post ...

 

[quaawaa]

Meanwhile, in the comments of an entirely unrelated post ...

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That guy is obsessed with troons:

His username is his real name and he has a Wikipedia article (archive) that reads like he wrote it himself.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

His username is his real name and he has a Wikipedia article (archive) that reads like he wrote it himself.

I'm vaguely familiar with him, and it's disappointing to see he subscribes to the state religion.

Meanwhile, in the comments of an entirely unrelated post

Archive, or at least link, to that entirely unrelated post.

 

[Vecr]

That guy is obsessed with troons:
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His username is his real name and he has a Wikipedia article (archive) that reads like he wrote it himself.

Unlike Gwern Branwen, former Wikipedia admin and Future of Humanity Institute (FHI, the one that got shut down this year) consultant?

 

[Markass the Worst]

Unlike Gwern Branwen, former Wikipedia admin and Future of Humanity Institute (FHI, the one that got shut down this year) consultant?

Gwern has stated that Gwern is a pseudonym.

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That Don Hopkins schizo responded:

source (a)

The tweet is this:

source (a)

Looks real bad for Gwern, doesn't it? Unfortunately for Don, this is not Gwern's real account. His real account is not @gwernbranwen1, it's @Gwern, and it's private. It even has a verified checkmark, unlike @gwernbranwen1, which is just some random troll/parody account.

That the faggot named Don Hopkins couldn't do the most basic of investigation to validate his claims shows how much credibility he has (none whatsoever).

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

Turns out he's a creepy pedo who the cops picked up in a catch-a-predator type sting and then discovered he had a house full of child porn too.

Very important: never buy the sob stories about „being on the sex offender registry for drunkenly peeing at night on the tree next to an empty school“. Nonces always lie, it’s never that.

I would rather buy the planted evidence excuse (this one seems dangerously easy when only ownership needs to be proven, and there have been cops prosecuted for doing this with drugs to literally hundreds of ppl at traffic stops for no discernible reason at all), but that only really applies when the feds have a reason to take you out because otherwise why would they search your house in the first place?

One would also hope (pray) that the prosecution is able to differentiate between „person deliberately hoarded CP“ and „in the google chrome cache folder was a preview image of some naked 17yo that was automatically downloaded in the background some time in the last 5 years“.

But it’s ALWAYS a huge pile of fucking child porn with these people. How are there so many fucking pedos out there, how do they keep finding each other, and how can it be so hard to stop them.

 

[Vecr]

That guy is obsessed with troons:
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His username is his real name and he has a Wikipedia article (archive) that reads like he wrote it himself.

Archive of Gwern's 2014 comment: https://archive.is/UCcYG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750504

> Notice this is written by Lynn Conway - very accomplished chip designer/electrical engineer/systems engineer
And also an outrageously biased and partisan activist whose claims, when writing on anything but chip design, should be checked with a microscope and then promptly thrown out as cherry-picked or misleading in some way you weren't competent to figure out.

The article he's replying to, HN has it as "Why We Don’t Know the Size of the Transgender Population" https://archive.is/gxSlg https://archive.is/o/ivmDx/fivethir...-know-the-size-of-the-transgender-population/
2014 HN discussion: https://archive.is/ivmDx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749922

Gwern has stated that Gwern is a pseudonym.

That makes a lot of sense, though it's possible to change your name. It's used in official documents, but it's not like they're from a government. It was kind of hard to tell against a background of names like Zvi Mowshowitz (confirmed real) Eliezer Yudkowsky (he must have pulled a fast one in his teens if it's not real) and Zeynep Tufekci (I think it's real, not sure how to check though).

 

[quaawaa]

Looks real bad for Gwern, doesn't it? Unfortunately for Don, this is not Gwern's real account. His real account is not @gwernbranwen1, it's @Gwern, and it's private. It even has a verified checkmark, unlike @gwernbranwen1, which is just some random troll/parody account.

That the faggot named Don Hopkins couldn't do the most basic of investigation to validate his claims shows how much credibility he has (none whatsoever).

lmao:

Source (Archive)

 

[RGBCube]

Archive of Gwern's 2014 comment: https://archive.is/UCcYG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750504

The article he's replying to, HN has it as "Why We Don’t Know the Size of the Transgender Population" https://archive.is/gxSlg https://archive.is/o/ivmDx/fivethir...-know-the-size-of-the-transgender-population/
2014 HN discussion: https://archive.is/ivmDx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749922

That makes a lot of sense, though it's possible to change your name. It's used in official documents, but it's not like they're from a government. It was kind of hard to tell against a background of names like Zvi Mowshowitz (confirmed real) Eliezer Yudkowsky (he must have pulled a fast one in his teens if it's not real) and Zeynep Tufekci (I think it's real, not sure how to check though).

Zeynep is a common female name in Turkey and I have seen the "Tüfekçi" surname in real life. So someone definitely has that name and surname combo.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

It's no n-gate, but is it better than nothing:

http://quackernews.com

 

[Chickin BBQ]

Ah, quackernews - uber for n-gate.

 

[Raven Rainbow]

quackernews is trying way too hard and isn't funny

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

quackernews is trying way too hard and isn't funny

Reads like a Cracked article. Since it's AI generated I wonder if the creator told it to make snarky Cracked style summaries.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

@sirthisisanarbys No trolling plans.