[diminoten]

You're being downvoted because you're hitting on a trope/cliche that's called out in the rules, and while I doubt HN is dying from a user engagement perspective, I do believe the comments are less filled with value than they have been in the past, given how negativity dang sees conflict.

Healthy conflict is good, but I've participated in healthy conflict here and was stopped by dang because of it.

[dang]

> I've participated in healthy conflict here and was stopped by dang because of it.

Where did I do that?

[diminoten]

The majority of the time you've killed my comments.

[dang]

What comments? That's not something we commonly do, unless we've banned the account.

[diminoten]

It's rarely/ever paid off to engage with you on these issues, but if you genuinely do care, I have a 10 year history in which some of my comments have been killed, and in the majority of those comments it's been because of the very existence of disagreement, not because of the nature of how the disagreement was playing out.

[dragonwriter]

Any description of why comments are killed by anyone other than the people who killed it is imputing motives based on almost no direct evidence.

[diminoten]

I'm curious about why you're on this 10 day old thread.

[dang]

It's impossible to say for sure without links, but those comments were probably killed either by user flags or by software, rather than by moderators. We don't typically kill comments outright unless we're banning the account.

[diminoten]

This is entirely false, and I'm not sure why you're saying it. I literally have emails from you saying exactly the opposite.