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0 pointsdang4y ago0 comments

Hmm. But the HN account is only 17 days old.

The problem is that some people are going to react as if the name is trolling, whether it is or not (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Since the account is only a couple weeks old, I feel like we should just rename it to avoid woe. It's not the worst case, of course.

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RealityWinner4y ago

Yes I understand I only made this recently. I've read for a while and wanted the ability to vote and comment so I made it. I updated my github[1] to prove ownership as well and put it in my about. If there are any issues brought up to me by other users about my name I would be open to renaming but at this time I would much prefer to use the username i've been using.

[1]https://github.com/RealityWinner

dangOP4y ago

Ok, we can leave it like this for now, but if people end up reacting in the way I described, we're going to end up enforcing the policy. I've learned that it's much better to deal with these things earlier than later, but this is a borderline case so we can kick the can down the road.

RealityWinner4y ago

Thanks, I understand. In the meantime can you point me to where the policy is? I don't see it in the Guidelines[1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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0 pointsdang4y ago0 comments

Hmm. But the HN account is only 17 days old.

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RealityWinner4y ago

[1]https://github.com/RealityWinner

dangOP4y ago

RealityWinner4y ago

Thanks, I understand. In the meantime can you point me to where the policy is? I don't see it in the Guidelines[1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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