| Would you please stop posting political and/or ideological flamewar comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you have a long history of breaking the rules here and we've had to warn you many times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390797 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 (May 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250891 (Oct 2018) If you keep this up we're going to end up having to ban you, especially because you appear to be using HN primarily for this. That's a clear abuse of the site, so please stop. |
I get the sense that whenever I'm in any thread where many others are making similar, political comments, somebody gets upset and flags mine and I'm the one punished. The parent comments are all political. So what is the line between flame bait and commenting on politics?
The most recent occurrence listed was me stating to someone they were suffering from cognitive dissonance in June. If you actually look at that comment, it's not exactly a brutal insult.
I think you do a great job moderating and I don't envy the task. I just feel like there are certain kinds of users who flag everyone that disagrees with them and gives me the impression that political comments that do not go against certain dominant ideologies never get flagged but mine do.
My recommendation is that if HN does not want political discussion on the site, they shouldn't allow political links to be posted. My comments were directly related to the digital jail article's contents. I don't really see how any conversation around a government freezing people's bank accounts as a form of digital punishment cannot be political.