[GauntletWizard]

Then ban positive promotion of crypto, as a whole.

You can't, because you want a site that values free speech. But any site that values free speech is going to have to repeatedly answer the same basic questions on Crypto and Communism. It's going to have to repeatedly say "No, we're not trying to censor you because of chosen group X that claims to be innate, we're banning you because of actual crimes you have committed"

It's fine to argue about crimes in the sense of whether they should be illegal and whether people have actually committed them. At some point, you need to acknowledge that criminals will continue to argue their points, and that you either need to ban them or acknowledge that the same arguments will be repeated against them.

[dang]

You're making some incorrect assumptions here. The kind of site we want is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The sort version is we want curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. That rules out excessive repetition, among other things.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[yieldcrv]

This is a website where everyone gets some of their compensation in lottery tickets at a smaller company selling a service to a larger ad conglomerate with fraudulent conversion metrics, or they get paid half theyre comp in easily convertible shares at the larger ad conglomerate with fraudulent conversion metrics

I really cant spot a reason to treat “crypto” differently

The similarity being that there is just other aspects of these projects and technology to focus on, that can be interesting

[pvg]

If you think a submission is bad you can flag it. You can also mail the mods if you think it needs more than that. That can actually reduce the incidence of bad submissions, railing against them repetitively in every thread just feeds them.

[GauntletWizard]

I agree. It has been flagged. It has been marked flagged. It has been re-added to the front page. If Dang wants people to stop arguing about it, then the flag moderation framework needs to stop putting crypto back on the front page. That may well involve banning people who are otherwise good commenters, like when China issues come up.