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by dang 1992 days ago
Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar, as you did repeatedly in this thread and are doing repeatedly on the site elsewhere. Comments like e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25526385 are unacceptable, for reasons which will be obvious to you once you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you keep posting like that we will ban you. I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted some ok comments within recent memory, but the not-ok comments are seriously not ok. No more of this, please.
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CryptoPunk 1992 days ago
Sorry, I'll try to not incite flame wars. In my defense, anything related to these kinds of issues is highly likely to rouse emotions. The only way these topics can even brought up without a flame war is if every one agrees, and no one expresses a dissenting viewpoint. Just Food for Thought.

But yes I could certainly have been less provocative.

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dang 1992 days ago
> anything related to these kinds of issues is highly likely to rouse emotions.

You can say that again! And yet the seemingly innocuous mandate of this site—gratification of intellectual curiosity—actually requires us all to work hard at not succumbing to that dynamic. If you think about it (well, when I think about it), two odd things follow from that: (1) this is a rather larger project than it seems; (2) it's actually doable.

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CryptoPunk 1992 days ago
Yes it is doable. I made a mistake in how I dealt with inflammatory comments, in responding in kind instead of reporting it. I wrongly assumed moderation was more lax, and the forum was more of a free-for-all, than they are.
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