Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | robotfelix's commentslogin

From the Code of Conduct:

> Unacceptable behaviors include but are not limited to: offensive comments, insults, jokes or ridicule; gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they are nor other unappropriately aggressive behaviors; threats of violence or deliberate intimidation; creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban; harassment of any form.

I can't help but wonder who decided that, in an electronics forum of all places, *any* form of joke should be unacceptable, but sexual images are only a problem if they are gratuitous or off-topic!


Commas are akin to thing(1|2|3) sometimes.

So it's offensive comments, offensive insults, offensive jokes, etc, as I read it, with ; breaking the association.


You're absolutely correct and it's me who has mis-read that part. The point of the oddly relaxed wording on sexual images and behaviour still stands though!


Offensive sexual images and behavior would fall under the first clause.

Then you’re left with the “my tasteful nudes aren’t offensive” defense to which the response is “but they are off topic”.

Presumably that means your biometric sensing vibrator hacking tutorial is still legal.


> sexual images are only a problem if they are gratuitous or off-topic

Well if someone was working on something like a medical device there might be some documentation that could be interpreted as sexual but that documenting it was not gratuitous.


The list is supposed to be read as "offensive jokes", not any joke at all.


The image would have to be topical, and the sexual nature would have to be necessary (not-gratuitous) for it to be compliant with that CoC.

I'd be surprised if such an image can exist in an electronics forum because those parameters are pretty narrow. I also don't interpret policy as disallowing any form of joke.

I'm not about to go hunting, but I think I would find a good number of good non-offensive jokes, and probably no instances of sexual imagery.


Just guessing it's to cover pictures of electronic projects involving body parts that are normally covered and/or risque attire?


It's so the wrong opinion can be selectively enforced against.


Unable to access chatgpt.com


Our site is fine, including files served by Cloudflare's CDN and Cloudflare Workers, but the Cloudflare dashboard is definitely down.

The Cloudflare status page says that it's the dashboard and Cloudflare APIs that are down. I wonder if the problem is focused on larger sites because they are more dependent on / integrated with Cloudflare APIs. Or perhaps it's only an Enterprise tier feature that's broken.

If it's not everything that is down, I guess things are slightly more resilient than last time?


> A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal. Posted 3 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC

Seems like they think they've fixed it fully this time!


Close! They just updated their states and it's back to working on a fix

Update - Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:57 UTC


Things are back up (a second time) for me. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet though

Edit: and down again a third time!


> Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Things are back up (a second time) for me.

Cloudflare have updated their status page now to reflect the problems now. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet.

Edit: and down again a third time!


it's back again!


Back up for me now

Edit: and then back down again


Back up for me now


Down again


Yep - down again for me too!


Yep. App is down for us. Their website seems to be offline too (https://slack.com/)

Edit: aaaaaand we're back


Salesforce Service Cloud is affected by the issue too, so if they are dogfooding their own customer service software there's a good chance their support team are locked out of accessing support cases too :/

https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/10001540


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: