Your complaint is about an announcement.
I think Oldminer highlights a good point, albeit somewhat erratically. The CEO made a post on HT with the sole purpose of letting everyone know that he will announce something in a few hours or later today or whatever the phrasing was. And then didn't announce anything and didn't offer any explanation. While technically inconsequential, this has been a recurring pattern, and has caused quite a bit of chaos in the past due to the very emotional nature of this whole HT "announcement culture". So it's really puzzling why they would deliberately do it again. I mean the pre-announcement and the silence. I can fully understand the the actual announcement could have been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances, but there was absolutely no reason to do that pre-announcement post OR pretend like it never happened, as it now looks like a bad joke.
As for banning, unfortunately Oldminer's ban was a foregone conclusion. Downvoting the CEO is definitely out of bounds as far as HT "respect" is concerned. Whether Oldminer agrees with that or not, their forum, their rules.
yup, agreed, it was a bad screw up. there was no need to "preannounce" and then make no announcement. that made a ton of people upset
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