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Why can't you link to the publicly available stuff you read online?

If you're not going to give us ANY information AT ALL then you're just wasting everyone's time by making 'I have a secret!' type comments.

I'm not upset, I'm just trying to explain to you why you are getting downvoted into oblivion.



man/woman/dude/whatever... seriously, just relax. I'm not obligated to do anything for you, or to conform to your world view. :-)

I will contribute what I want, when I want, where I want, how I want. if you like it, value it, understand it, great, that's awesome. there's no need to attack or criticize. and to be very fair, if I applied your own criteria right back at you, to your comments, they would also fail. Your comments gave me no useful information at all. Instead all you've done is waste my time and those of the poor folks who've had to stumble across them. I said what I said, then, I wished to move on. If you also were privy to the same knowledge of recent public events in the Ethereum/Dao space, great, good for you. If you saw the same sequence of events and patterns, great, good for you. If you don't, oh well, I'm not obligated to do anything further for you personally. I would like to discover a website that's like HN, but a bit less toxic, so perhaps if you decide to help me with that, then in exchange I'd be willing to share with you more details behind the scenes as well. Otherwise, please chill. :-)

I have tried very hard to be polite to you. Please change your tone, or, just quietly move on. Thank you.


Don't mind him, he's just been bullying people on this thread.


ok thank you for the kind words


for the record, my comment:

"ok thank you for the kind words"

has been downvoted to -1

HN mods/ownership: please remove the Downvote button. at best the staff/mods should be able to exercise it. because it's well past the time where it's been shown to have been abused by its current users. My vote: HN should continue to attract and retain smart people, and kind people. It should not attract or retain assholes.


only on HN can I politely thank a fellow user, and for that social crime my comment is downvoted to oblivion, draining my karma. this site is unbelievably nasty at times.

HN mods/devteam: I vote please remove the downvote control for ordinary users, site-wide. its the simplest way to fix this old long-standing problem. simple, shotgun solution.


Only those with high karma accounts can downvote. For example I myself do not have the ability to downvote.


Stop the crocodile tears. It doesn't matter if you're polite. You're engaging in the worst kind of rumor and FUD spreading possible, and you deserve to be down-voted for it.

There are a million ways to talk about something without making strong assertions about it, e.g. "is this what it looks like? <link>".




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