[McScroogy]

You are a liar, at the very least, you are lying to yourself. You ban me for criticising socialism, not because of ideological battles. If you would care about ideology, you would ban the ideological subjects. For example Stallman's appointment was a frequent topic on here. I did not start those topics, and you let them stay.

Case in point: I did not make any submissions with this account. I only commented. So it doesn't make sense to claim I created the account for ideological battle.

It's also nonsense from you to claim that some discussion taking place in a deeply nested comment thread somehow distracts from what "HN is for". Those who don't care can simply gloss over it. I am not taking away any of your precious front page space.

Just admit that you can't stand criticism of socialism, and that is your basic motivation here.

[dang]

Users who break the site guidelines around political flamewar always feel like we ban them for their politics. Actually we just ban people for breaking the guidelines. "You ban me for criticizing $X" can have $X = "socialism", "capitalism", or anything else. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 for dozens of examples.

We don't care what your favorite flavor of politics is any more than your favorite ice cream. Actually your favorite ice cream would be more interesting, because it gets discussed less. The tedium of these internet battles cannot be overstated.