[dang]

Duplicate comments are not ok here.

For a long time now—and an astonishing number of posts—you've been using HN basically to post agitprop. The trouble isn't your opinions—whatever they are, I'm sure plenty of other users agree with them, all of whom manage to use HN just fine. The trouble is that you've crossed into being a single-purpose account, which is not cool. HN threads are for conversations, not agendas. One can't have a conversation with a megaphone.

Since we already asked you once to stop and you don't seem interested in changing, I'm going to ban this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [e-mail] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

[feelin_googley]

Its not a duplicate. @mercer suggested the last paragraph should be removed, so thats what I did. Alas, the edit period had expired.

Edit: Notice that youve toned down your original reply, which had statements like "No one cares about your opinions about Google, Apple or Facebook." It seems I have agitated you. I apologise.

[dang]

I didn't say "no one cares". Originally I wrote "We really don't care about your opinions of Apple or Facebook or Google". That is true, in the sense that if you flipped the high bit on all your opinions to turn them into the opposite opinions, we'd have the same moderation response.

But I've learned it's better not to word things that way. I can't easily stop myself from typing the first version of a comment more strongly than I know is helpful, so my solution is to sand off the sharp edges by editing, which I do a lot of.

[feelin_googley]

I dont have any issue with editing comments. I use the edit feature constantly myself.

Im just making clear I am not trying to cause agitation. Thats not the intent.

I try to be sparing with opinions. I dislike having to type prefix or postfix statements with "IMO" again and again, but I want to make explicit what is only an opinion versus what are facts or observations because ("IMO") opinions are almost always worthless. I prefer facts and questions.

Most of the volume of posts I made the past few weeks were not opinions but were excerpts and pointers to articles: facts and some journalists opinions.

The truth is I waste too much time "interacting" with this addictive forum. Its a distraction.

If you ban me from ever posting anything ever again on HN, in all honesty, you will probably be doing me a favour.

[mercer]

I don't mean this in a mean way, but you do seem to care a little too intensely (about both fb/apple/etc. and the effects of that on your karma and whatnot). Wouldn't a good alternative be to just tone it down a bit, if possible? Because honestly I don't think you're wrong probably most of the time, so your contributions could be valuable.

I often struggle with my own conduct in social settings, and I've been called 'too intense' more than once, among other things. I don't know your particular story, or if there is a 'story', but I'd really hate the idea that you'd leave entirely instead of finding a way to be you and still fall within the acceptable range of HN commenters. And not get too addicted, of course :). I've been so unsuccessful at the latter that I decided to 'use it for good' and build my own little plugins so at least I'm learning something while being here.