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The author thinks that quoting Mark Twain will get him permabanned from Medium without the ability to appeal successfully? On what factual grounds?

Considering the fact that the theoretical chance of that happening has gotten a link to his blog to the front of HN, I would be fascinated to see Medium employees justify “No quoting literature with mean words no matter the context” to the posters on here if they chose that route.

So far I’ve only got a couple of pieces of information: a link to a blog and the promise of some groundbreaking new literary analysis that’s ~too critical and offensive to the algorithm to even try posting~. It kind of reads like an ad.

I am familiar with Twain’s work, I’ve read it, along with lots of critiques and articles (he is one of the most popular and analyzed authors in US history)



I'm guessing they don't want to deal with it.

This is actually good, if more people chose not to use Medium because of issues like this, Medium would adapt or die.


Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something.

I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?


This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.


Nvm, this whole post is just whipping up attention before he posts. It is factually untrue that the usage of slurs results in an automatic and incontestable ban, and I would be surprised if OP did not bother to do any basic searching before inventing this boogeyman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227936




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