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by dang 1634 days ago
Please do not post flamewar comments to Hacker News, regardless of how wrong other people are, or how much smarter you are, or how wrong you feel they are, or how smart you feel you are. Flamewar hell is not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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

Edit: actually, you've been breaking the site guidelines so egregiously that I've banned the account. It's not ok to post like this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674183

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674176

We're trying for a different sort of website, one in which people have thoughtful, curious conversation across differences. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the intended spirit in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Dang you spend more time banning accounts than constructively participating on the site. Just look at your comment history.

This goes against the spirit of HN. We value open discussion here.

Your actions should be brought to PGs attention. It seems you are abusing your power as moderator. This is not in HN’s best interest.

Just because you disagree with someone doesnt mean you should ban or silence them.

If you look at my comments more closely you'll see that banning accounts is a small portion of what I do. Mostly I try to persuade and explain to users what kind of site we're trying to have here, what the site guidelines are, and how we apply them.

It always feels like the mods are against you (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), but you can't take that as evidence that we disagree with you. The people with opposite views to yours are just as sure that we're secretly agreeing with you and moderating the site to privilege your views. That's just how it goes.