[galacticpony2]

Oh really? How about these statements that I had to "endure":

"Before you attempt to reason from basic principals to a defense of the status quo, you should attempt to fully understand those principles."

"This is armchair-pundit-bullshit akin to climate change denial."

Aren't they worth personal warnings? If so, I'd really like it if you could give them out, just so that there isn't any injustice here.

[dang]

You're asking for a level of consistency that's impossible with HN moderation. I wrote about this here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977025.

Nevertheless, as most of our mothers taught us, two wrongs don't make a right, and someone else violating the rules is no excuse. If you do that repeatedly (and you have), you're going to get banned here for obvious reasons.

[galacticpony2]

... replying here instead because replying @dang is locked:

I'm not asking for a "two wrongs make one right" defense, I'm asking for equal treatment. You flagged my comment even though it was arguably much less of an "attack" than what I quoted.

I don't fault you for not catching those quotes early, I'm faulting you for not flagging those comments as well now that you have been made aware. In the time you wrote your reply, you could've easily copy pasted a warning to those comments as well.

If you really don't want to give the impression that you're singling out me and my position for suppression, that's what you could still do.

[reitanqild]

You flagged my comment even though it was arguably much less of an "attack" than what I quoted.

dang most likely didn't flag you.

Everybody can flag (just click in the x minutes ago link and you'll see that post as top leveel including a link to flag it).

I think dang and other mods looks for flagged posts in the backend.

That said: don’t abuse flags like some other people around here do (IMO).

Also: don’t argue with the mods. They have enough to deal with a few people on both sides :-/

[galacticpony2]

> Everybody can flag (just click in the x minutes ago link and you'll see that post as top leveel including a link to flag it).

Thanks for pointing that out. My apologies to @dang, then.

Having said that, that's a pretty lame feature to have, considering that there's no way to see what the flagged comment was. For posterity, this is what I said:

"I never switched anything. The conclusion that "there aren't as many high-IQ women" comes from "there is a higher variance in the distribution of male intelligence". It's been there from the beginning.

You have to actually follow the links I give and pay attention during reading."