[_frip]

Haha 'one click away', I see nothing that proves your original comment, the burden of proof lay upon you (when the argument was active).

That's quite a jump to conclusion too. But whatever helps you sleep at night while accepting your bullshit narrative was openly called out and you made a fool of yourself. Must be hard spreading propaganda on internet forums. Have a good one. You may choose to reply to this comment but expect no further conversation. Peace :)

[dang]

Flamewar and personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this, so could you please review the site rules and follow them? They're at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and we'd be grateful.

[_frip]

Great point. I would happily follow the rules and I do.

Evidently though, the other person went ad-hominem with a very aggressive reddit-esque comment on a simple reply I gave. No one chimed in to flag that comment so I had to speak for myself. I just hope a moderator would have sprung into action sooner. That being said, it's nice you guys are making effort to keep the board clean from becoming `that`.

I'll just keep away from inciteful comments the next time. I really wish there was a report option here too.

[thewhitetulip]

lol

I googled "whatsapp admin arrested Modi NSA"

And guess which link came first?

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-44925166

Article says

> student has spent five months in an Indian jail over a WhatsApp message he says he did not send.

> Local reports say the 21-year-old man was charged with sedition because of "objectionable" content, although it is not clear what the message said.

I rest my case.

[dang]

We ban accounts that do flamewar on HN. Please don't get involved in arguments like this on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[thewhitetulip]

Hey, sorry. My previous response was very rude. I immediately updated it to the current one. Does this also constitute under flamewar? (If so, I'm sorry)

[dang]

It's not as bad. But it's still unnecessarily argumentative. A better spirit to post in is expressed in this old line of pg's: Comments should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

Try to find a point of connection between you and the person you're talking to. You don't need to say what it is explicitly; you just need to find it and feel it. Do that, and flamewar will magically be transformed into conversation.