[notanzaiiswear]

I want to comment on one more thing: calling somebody a "troll" is an insult.

Over several years, I have been called troll many times, just because I called out leftist conspiracy theories or misguided conceptions about economics. I think I have only called somebody an "idiot" once, and even that was quantified with "if you believe x, you are an idiot". I always try to explain patiently what is going on.

I don't recall you ever banning somebody for calling other people a "troll". I guess it is just such a normal reaction for lefties these days, anybody who disagrees with them has to be a troll. You have banned me several times for criticising socialism, though.

You yourself are calling people "trolls", so I guess you won't change your policies. And it is fine - pg handed the site over to you, so you can form it to your liking. Just don't pretend you are doing it for some higher values. You just don't like criticism of leftist ideology, that is all there is to it. As long as you don't ban people for spouting insults, spare me your "guidelines".

Bye

[dang]

Actually I was careful not to call you a troll. I said your username was trollish (meaning that it adds a provocation to every thread it posts to), and I said your repetitively bringing up the Holocaust was at minimum concern trolling (I could also have said sealioning)—the point being that going on and on about how you're not questioning the Holocaust is weird, like insisting you're not a cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBE9TZP26FI. It's guaranteed to provoke (hence concern trolling), and it inevitably brings up darker associations, because extremists are known to play games with this sort of thing—non-denial denials, etc. We don't want any of that here.

> You have banned me several times for criticising socialism > You just don't like criticism of leftist ideology

People make up this narrative about why we ban them all the time; ideologues on the opposite side say the same thing. None of it is true. You can tell that in two ways: first, the claims are completely contradictory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870), but they rely on the same logic, so the logic must be wrong; second, all you have to do is scroll through past moderation comments to see that we moderate people on all ideological sides—and get flamed for it from all sides, too.

Since we've had to ban you several times, it's probably time for you to realize that you're simply not using this site as intended.