[dang]

Gratuitous provocation and name-calling are not dissent. You can express dissenting views without doing those things, and users here are required to.

There is a link, though: people with minority/contrarian opinions are sometimes so frustrated with the majority that they lash out in frustration in ways that break the site guidelines. People with majority opinions don't usually do it that way. They're more likely to be self-righteous. Either way, though, users here need to follow the guidelines regardless of what their opinions are.

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

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It's always easy to willfully misconstrue what opposition says to justify their silencing. It's exactly what we're seeing at a large scale.

[dang]

You're skipping that you repeatedly broke the site guidelines and repeatedly ignored our requests to stop. What do you think we should do when people break the rules and flout polite requests by moderators?