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by hungerstrike 3179 days ago
It’s not name-calling if it’s true.

And you are sitting here calling someones truthful comment toxic waste. Meanwhile the top comment here wonders if any parents are present at Facebook.

Honestly, HN really sucks at moderation. You aren’t consistent at all and the rules are completely ambiguous. I’ve actually seen you respond this exact situation before when people complained about name-calling by saying that it’s not name-calling when the person is not even here and because they are the subject of the article.

So whatever to you sir. Bad censorship is bad.
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dang 3179 days ago
> It’s not name-calling if it’s true.

On the contrary, of course it is, and having it be "true" (which none of you have any evidence for, as I pointed out downthread) would make it worse, since then it would inspire even more feces-throwing, the overwhelming majority of which is not "true".

> HN really sucks at moderation

Maybe this is not the site you're looking for. In my world, consistency of moderation is quite impossible; for one thing it would require reading all the material.

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hungerstrike 3179 days ago
> On the contrary, of course it is...

Calling something what it is...is just called communicating.

And there is plenty of evidence. Consider first, if you will, the fact that sociopathy is a spectrum disorder.

> Maybe this is not the site you're looking for.

Oh, well I guess I could say the exact same thing to you. That's a bit snarky don't you think? I mean, here I am and obviously I want to be here but you're telling me that maybe I don't want to be...hmmm. Nice moderation.

> consistency of moderation is quite impossible; for one thing it would require reading all the material.

Responding the same way to each incident does not require reading all the material. Having non-ambiguous rules does not require reading all the material. Having more moderators does not require reading all the material.

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dang 3179 days ago
The reason I said that is that you recently broke the site guidelines and rejected the correction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15443444

If you continue to post in a way that makes it clear you don't want to use this site as intended, you're going to end up getting banned. Please reread https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this from now on. It's not like it's hard for anyone who wants to.

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