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by dang 2971 days ago
Would you please stop using HN for flamewars? It's totally not ok, and you've done it a lot and we've had to warn you about it repeatedly. You've posted many awesome things to Hacker News so we'd hate to ban you, but protecting the site from flames is more important. This is a problem we need you to fix.

Please read and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and help take care of this place instead of helping to wreck it. I'm sure you wouldn't fuel flames in a forest or a garden, so please don't fuel them here.
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mpweiher 2971 days ago
Sorry, I don't "use" HN for flamewars. And just to be sure I checked several pages worth of my comments just now, after all I could be misremembering.

I also don't recall being "warned" about this "repeatedly".

I do try to correct gross misinformation. With facts and figures.

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dang 2970 days ago
The most recent moderation reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288896. If it doesn't read like a warning, that's out of politeness and respect for your positive contributions to HN.

It's true that your most recent history doesn't contain ideological flamewar (not counting this nationalistic spat), which is great. Nonetheless it has noticeably been a problem in the past, and your comments still sometimes contain uncivil swipes that need to be edited out.

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