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Sorry Dang, I did check the guidelines on this. If I remove the names and only kept the titles, would that be acceptable for HN?


I'm really not sure. If the spirit is still to shame them or demand that they account for themselves, maybe not. If it's to make a more general point about organizations, maybe. If you had just included the titles and not the names or the links, I wouldn't have replied, so I guess the line is thereabouts.

It's true that the guidelines don't spell everything out, partly because that would be impossible, partly because beyond a certain length no one would read them, and partly because if they were written in a more legalistic or formalistic way, people would take them as sort of a bitmask, everything in the inverse of which must be ok. That's definitely not how things work here. We want a spirit of the law, not a letter of the law kind of place. I guess I've been saying this for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606756.


That's fair. Can the names in my post be redacted? It still shows up in DDG. I tried to edit it earlier after your response, but I left it too late.


I've reopened your comment for editing so you can modify it.

Edit: just to close the loop on this, the way you modified your comment does actually seem fine to me, so this was a nice test case of probing where the line actually should be. Thanks!




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