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> I asked what you wanted to know, but reading this response, it doesn't seem like you want to know things so much as to fulminate against HN and how it is moderated.

and instead of reflecting on that for a minute you will continue on in exactly the same manner.

I was able to contribute to this site for years without issue before you came along. I find the moderation here now arbitrary, heavy handed, and pretty extremely biased.

> You, on the other hand, have been posting obviously flamebaity and ideological battle comments as well as fuming about "groupthink" and "wrongthink" and downvoting and how awful everything here is

Having and expressing any sort of ideology is against the rules. Great thanks.

Higher karma users have the ability to downvote. They use that to enforce their ideology. Anything that goes against the grain too much immediately gets downvoted and flagged. You personally described the my comment on wage slavery being bad as an "empty cliche". That's not condescending low effort flamebait?

You are so entrenched in your own ideology you can't even tell how deep you've gone. Just completely impossible to reason with.

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> I was able to contribute to this site for years without issue before you came along.

When people go on about how badly they were treated on HN, but omit any verifiable details, I call such comments linkless martyrs [1]. Without links, readers have no way to make up their minds for themselves [2]. The past pattern has been that such claims are greatly exaggerated, leave out critical details, or are made up. Sob stories and tales of injustice are easy to produce, but looking at what actually happened reveals otherwise.

Perhaps your case is the exception? If so, you can easily prove it with links that show how you were posting like this "for years without issue before you came along". pg was 10x quicker to ban accounts than we are, so my bet is that what you're saying is false.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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oh cool, now I'm a liar too.

> I call such comments linkless martyrs

You take pride in coining cute little phrases like that?

> If so, you can easily prove it with links that show how you were posting like this "for years without issue before you came along".

I really have no interest in playing your games at this point. I explained myself, you dismissed everything I said and seem to have zero interest in an honest conversation. Instead you'd rather pick a line and jerk yourself off about what a way with words you have.

> "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché

Still haven't explained how that isn't unsubstantive flamebait. Smug jerk.

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I realize we're probably past bridgeable distance here, but if there's a way to explain it, I'd be curious to hear what would have counted as a more helpful response.