[ChefDenominator]

Since you used the phrase "trickle down economics" as if it were a formal economic theory, I discount every thing you stated because you don't understand the phrases you are using.

[dang]

This sort of personal attack will get your account banned on HN, so please don't do it again. Ditto for uncivil swipes like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14435509.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

[ChefDenominator]

Is this universally enforced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591314

[dang]

We certainly try to. But you'd probably get farther with us if you worked on your own stuff first.

[ChefDenominator]

Two posts in violation of a policy regularly broken makes it so if I complain about this bad behavior someone else is using against me, such complaints are not relevant, but I may be banned from your website.

Am I understanding this correctly?

[dang]

That is like complaining when you get a speeding ticket because you saw other people speeding and didn't see them get a ticket.

[ChefDenominator]

These types of selective moderation make HN seem like the typical hive-mind that shouts down and uses abusive moderative tactics to prevent any diversity of opinion from sticking around.

Enjoy your kingdom.