"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
It's a matter of whether someone is using HN as intended or not (as far as we can tell). For accounts that repeatedly go against the intended use of the site, we don't have much choice but to ban them, or else the site won't survive for its purpose. We do warn them first, often quite a few times and over a long period before banning—it depends on how much history the account has here. For accounts without much history, we sometimes ban straightaway, if the violation is egregious.
That doesn't seem excessively authoritarian to me and I don't see how we could do it differently without giving up on the site's mandate, which is not an option.
You're certainly welcome to disagree. I'd never claim we get all of this right; but we still have to moderate the site, decide which accounts to ban and when, which comments to mod-reply to, and so on. It's better to have some principles for this than not, and it's better to explain what they are than not. Then (at least some) people (hopefully) won't be (as) surprised if they get moderated or banned.
This form of slide deck has become a staple in the security research community for some reason. I don't like it either but they're just following form.
When presenting the reveal.js interaction model is to hit space or some other navigation key.
I’m not defending it, because I legitimately think their multidimensional view is horrible for post facto sharing, especially on mobile. But it does mean that you can quickly navigate between chunks of the deck if you need to backtrack as a presenter.
That's actually not a terrible idea... depending on if people ask questions or if you have extra time while presenting, the ability to take a small detour would be pretty cool
I can't even tell it's crappy. Just a blank screen with Javascript disabled. Sites aren't worth visiting if they don't care about usability and accessibility, and promptly get added to my shit-list of domains.
