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by hnamazon123 3672 days ago
The article posted is literally about ideological differences so.. what?

Also, name calling? What?

I see that the submission was removed or flagged down. I suspect that has more to do with the fact that it is critical of leftism rather than that it has nothing to do with startups or programming. This community would be much better if you just removed most of these non-programming/non-startup related submissions.
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dang 3671 days ago
This isn't a political bias, but a bias in favor of thoughtful discussion and intellectual curiosity, which burn to a crisp in flamewars. The color of the flames doesn't matter.

You've been abusing HN badly by using it exclusively to prosecute politics, often aggressively and uncivilly. That's not a legit use of this site, so we've banned your account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com; we're happy to unban accounts when people want to use the site as intended.

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hnamazon123 3671 days ago
Where did I 'name call' though?

Why is this acceptable to you?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795186

I'm not religious but this would seem to be absurdly inflammatory in normal contexts. I think that may even be illegal to put into practice.

Also why allow political stories at all if you don't want people exclusively discussing them?

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dang 3671 days ago
'Religion' and 'close-minded' are name-calling in the context you used them in. So is 'leftists', for that matter, since you construed that category of people only to put them down.

That comment you linked to is absolutely not acceptable, and I've chided the commenter. If you saw it earlier, I wish you'd have have flagged it. We rely on users to bring unacceptable comments to our attention, and that's the best way. In egregious cases you can also email us at hn@ycombinator.com. (To flag comments, you need 30+ karma, and then can click on a timestamp to go to a comment's page and click 'flag'.)

It's dismaying that you could possibly have thought such a comment was acceptable, given the effort I've put into communicating just the opposite: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....

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