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		Wowfunhappy on Oct 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What constitutes "posting too fast" ^ This is how to get ahold of dang. Dang has also stated many times that `@dang` is a no-op, I don't know why people keep using it.

Cupertino95014 on Oct 18, 2024 [–]

Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?

krapp on Oct 18, 2024 | [–]

It's a Twitter idiom. Why would anyone expect it to work here, of all places?

Cupertino95014 on Oct 18, 2024 | | [–]

wowfunhappy said, "I don't know why people keep using it."

so maybe it's an idiom that's spread beyond Twitter.

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