| So it has been sustained that the criticism is pointless. The excuse is also pretty lame. Judging by your profile, your account is new (less than 50 days old) and the Guideline you're referring to is wayback to 2016. There seems to be an inconsistency there. Whether you have older account or not, there is still a clear intention od flaming here. Using a two-year old archive of the guideline is pointless to justify your behavior. New accounts will naturally folllow the latest version of the Guidelines so again it is pointless to refer to old version of the Guidelines. It is imprudent that you never tried to re-read the Guidelines since 2016, and that would be impossible either because any update to the site, it turned out, is properly published as a news in the front page. So, again, the elements of trolling, flaming, pointlessness and dishonesty has been sustained. I perceive this incident as an instance of how old users game the HN system by trolling new users using provocative behavior, virtue signalling and downvoting comments. But I guess the problem lies in how HN fringe perceives "civility" and "diplomacy" which is at the level of a crude AI that doesn't get past beyond mere keyword bypasses and bowdlerizing techniques. Humans thinking and acting like machines. ~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe |