yjk

I'm going to play devil's advocate. The way I'm visualizing it is like you have one of those wooden gates (https://kiarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/9-Traditional-Japanese-torii-gate-in-public-park1.jpg) and he scratched his name into the side. If he was allowed to be there (which I assume is true given there was a witness) it was a stupid mistake without ill intention.

Give enough people enough time, and one of them will do something stupid eventually. If the Japanese government is really willing to ruin someone's life over this, maybe you shouldn't open it freely to the public in the first place (instead maybe have a railing or force people to go with tour guides).

While we're at it, can we ban amp links and other url tracking in general?

No punishment for doing it, but maybe have a bot to remind people.

To clarify, I'm not engaging in whataboutism, I think both of them should be banned (though maybe sometimes affiliate links have their place).

I don't mean to be nitpicking but if the rule is zero-tolerance I think we should clear up the edge cases. I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

• What happens when the original title is misleading or clickbait? Personally I like how HN handles things in this case (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
• How about if you want to ask a question about a news article as the main focus of the post, but also want to include context about the article?
• Or if you're making the post to discuss a related topic, and include multiple articles?
• On that note, what even counts as a news article? What if I post a link to a reddit thread about a news article?

Depending on when you posted your comments, I'd assume most of it is already archived somewhere. Even if that's not true, having the comments in a walled garden (that is actively trying to become more walled) is not going to help internet history, especially with the API becoming paid.