China building high-speed rail line from Beijing to the United States

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1508118/china-considering-building-high-speed-rail-line-beijing-united-states

by yodaiken • 12 years ago

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dang2• 12 years ago

You've editorialized the story title egregiously by omitting the word "considering". Please re-read the HN guidelines, and don't do that.

Burying as dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718277.

devconsole• 12 years ago

Hi dang. Someone downvote bombed a conversation I was having with some fellow HN users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726544

All the comments below that link had a downvote except one of mine. I tried to correct it, but I use Tor. I noticed when I tried to upvote the comments that upvotes from Tor users don't actually register. This makes sense, because allowing access from Tor will make it too easy to create sockpuppet accounts that game the system. But I was wondering if I might be able to be granted an exception based on good behavior? If it's not possible at the software level then don't worry about it, I understand. It's an unfortunate fact that Tor citizens won't be able to fully partake in HN, but it seems like that's the price of anonymity (and it seems like a reasonable one too!)

I was also wanting to check with you: has Tor caused the mod team many problems? I'm hoping that by setting a good example, I can convince others that it's possible to allow strong anonymity to good effect in a community. So I'm crossing my fingers that Tor will continue to be allowed on HN. (Thank you from the bottom of my heart for resisting the urge to ban it from the start.)

dang2• 12 years ago

Happy to look into it, but please send support requests to hn@ycombinator.com, so as not to dilute the threads.

DanAndersen• 12 years ago

'Considering' building, not building yet.

China building high-speed rail line from Beijing to the United States

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