[dang]

Since we've asked you several times to stop posting ideological boilerplate and political battle to HN, and instead you do this, we've banned this account.

I suppose I should add that no, that's not because we're $ideological_flavor.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947441 and marked it off-topic.

[andrenth]

How was that post ideological boilerplate? It’s a description of facts.

[dang]

It's obviously an ideological rant of the sort that has been repeated countless times before and is just the kind of thing we don't want here! That's not because we're socialists or some other ideology, but because experience has taught us what kinds of discussions degenerate.

Even if it were "facts", which it isn't ("The snowflakes chant"?), factness is only one concern. Others include how relevant the "facts" are, how often they've been repeated, and what sort of discussion forms around them. There are infinitely many facts people might discuss, and very different intentions go into picking them. The intention we have here is for thoughtful discussion.

[andrenth]

The language might have been snarky, but you can see this sort of thing around here all the time.

I just find it strange because I never saw a liberal-leaning post to be called ideological boilerplate before.

[dang]

Stick around :)