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This is worse than censorship, is brainwash. So Trump has a lot of problems, but it looks like he is not corrupt. Hillary, on the other hand, is fully with corr

by meira 10y ago

This is worse than censorship, is brainwash. So Trump has a lot of problems, but it looks like he is not corrupt. Hillary, on the other hand, is fully with corruption. I really don't like/agree with YC priorities (I'm not an American, which is even more disturbing to see someone that laughs about killing others country president been endorsed/elected)

krapp 10y ago
You merely pasted and slightly edited this comment from a previous one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733234) Please stop acting like a bot. Hacker News values insightful, thoughtful discussion, not copypasta.
- duncanawoods 10y ago
  If it was copy-paste across multiple live stories I would agree with you but here the the original story was flagged so reposting a comment seems forgivable and the only way the poster can have the thoughtful discussion you wish to see.
  - krapp 10y ago
    If the poster wanted to have thoughtful discussion, they could have put some thought into their second comment, but they didn't. The boilerplate anti-Hillary spleen vent isn't even on topic here. It's exactly the sort of derailing tangent that gets these thread flagged to begin with.
    - duncanawoods 10y ago
      We always talk "around" the story on HN. The topic is about censorship of views and excluding and silencing people because of their views. That means talking about the views too. I am just a non-US outside observer so I give this to you as food for thought but your post looks like an attempt to silence views you don't agree with. You didn't downvote but went on the attack. Rather than a derailing tangent, its actually a case in point. If it genuinely wasn't your intent then just take this as a friendly message that it is the appearance so a different approach might avoid this in future.
      - krapp 10y ago
        I wasn't trying to silence views I disagree with. I want to promote discussion. It's just a matter of maintaining the signal to noise ratio - when it comes to political discussions here, there is already too little of the former and too much of the latter, and too many people grasping for the low hanging rhetorical fruit. But copying and pasting a comment isn't discussion.

by meira 10y ago

krapp 10y ago

You merely pasted and slightly edited this comment from a previous one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733234) Please stop acting like a bot. Hacker News values insightful, thoughtful discussion, not copypasta.

duncanawoods 10y ago
If it was copy-paste across multiple live stories I would agree with you but here the the original story was flagged so reposting a comment seems forgivable and the only way the poster can have the thoughtful discussion you wish to see.
- krapp 10y ago
  If the poster wanted to have thoughtful discussion, they could have put some thought into their second comment, but they didn't. The boilerplate anti-Hillary spleen vent isn't even on topic here. It's exactly the sort of derailing tangent that gets these thread flagged to begin with.
  - duncanawoods 10y ago
    We always talk "around" the story on HN. The topic is about censorship of views and excluding and silencing people because of their views. That means talking about the views too. I am just a non-US outside observer so I give this to you as food for thought but your post looks like an attempt to silence views you don't agree with. You didn't downvote but went on the attack. Rather than a derailing tangent, its actually a case in point. If it genuinely wasn't your intent then just take this as a friendly message that it is the appearance so a different approach might avoid this in future.
    - krapp 10y ago
      I wasn't trying to silence views I disagree with. I want to promote discussion. It's just a matter of maintaining the signal to noise ratio - when it comes to political discussions here, there is already too little of the former and too much of the latter, and too many people grasping for the low hanging rhetorical fruit. But copying and pasting a comment isn't discussion.