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by DanBC 4051 days ago
Did you see this post and thread, asking HN to avoid gratuitous negativity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916

1 comments

I'm not sure why my comment seems negative to you, while the comment above doesn't. The person above was generalizing negatively about "the people here", and it seemed gratuitous because no-one had criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA before.

In other words, please hellban me now, because I didn't get what was negative in my first comment.

I'm not sure why you think I am critcising you. Parent post is talking about gratuitous negativity, and I wanted to make sure you understood what they meant by gratuitous negativity which, in the context of HN, has a specific meaning.

I don't have any power to hellban you!