[dang]

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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

Edit: since you have a long history of doing this and are continuing to break the site guidelines, I've banned the account.

[kkjjkgjjgg]

People attack me, and you ban me. Classy as always. I even took the time to patiently explain what I meant, except for the one guy who was just spouting insults. Even to him I merely explained that he doesn't understand what I meant.

How is that "taking threads into flamewar hell"?

How many threads did you have to go back in my timeline to make the claim that I "always do that"? I clicked several pages and found nothing, even defending your own Sam Altman from insults in one of them.

[dang]

I banned you for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop, in the light of your long history of breaking the site guidelines, ignoring our requests to stop, and getting banned for it.

None of that depends on what other people did, though you're certainly right that they shouldn't have attacked you (and we'll ban them, too, if they keep posting like that).

If you don't want to be banned, it's not that hard to read the guidelines and follow them. The vast majority of users here manage that just fine.

I don't want to get locked into hostility here! It's nothing personal, and if you genuinely want to use HN as intended, there are always ways to correct the situation. We just need reason to believe that you do in fact want to use HN as intended and that the pattern of breaking the guidelines won't keep happening in the future.

[kkjjkgjjgg]

I did nothing that is against the guidelines, and you did not repeatedly ask me to stop whatever (I honestly don't even know what you mean). I think you are just projecting something.

I did nothing in this thread that is against the guidelines whatsoever. And not in my previous comments, either.

The only thing I did I guess is to voice an opinion or inconvenient truth that you personally don't like. I can see no other explanation for it.

Perhaps it is the comment on the "personal pronouns", because you belong to the group of people pushing that new ideology. But I did not even say you should not indulge people's request for their pronouns, just that people should not be forced to use them against their own convictions. As I explained, there is a clear analogy to the pronouns issue from the "personal manual", that is why I chose to mention it, because it is a well known issue.

Honestly, I just don't know what personal issue you seem to have with me.

[dang]

Surely you can see how "You are just completely clueless" (to pick one example) was against the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853438

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

It's hard to think of a more obvious violation than that one. Moderating such comments has zero to do with your opinions. We don't know or care what your opinions are.

[kkjjkgjjgg]

I think it is a pretty reasonable response to the type of comment that was directed at me. ("you, sir, are a fire. in dumpster. omg."). I don't think you will find a single instance of me insulting anybody without them directing hate and insults against me.

Yet somehow you protect those people and not me. Sorry I can not respect you for that.

[dang]

You seem to be saying it was ok for you to break the guidelines because someone else did it first. That's not how it works. It always feels like the other person started it and did worse, so that approach is a recipe for a downward spiral: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...

If you feel like you're personally being singled out for more stringent moderation, that's an illusion. I don't recognize your username (nor most usernames on HN). It's true that I banned you where I only warned the other user (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856521) but that's I looked up the history and saw that you'd been warned (and indeed, banned) more than once before, and because your account was considerably more abusive overall.

If the other user continues to break the site guidelines we will end up banning them also.