this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix.
If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets.
Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.
Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.
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Sure. I guess the subtext here is: this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix.
It would be better to eliminate karma altogether.
If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
That would be tricky, because YC has business processes (applications, IIRC) that run through the same code.
Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets.
Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.
Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.