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name-calling I don't see any name calling.

• dang 10y ago
  Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and you'll understand the sense in which the term is used here.
  • africajam 10y ago
    Is this argument / debate the reason this post has been flagged?
    • DanBC 10y ago
      There are ways to ask questions about restrictive clauses in licences that don't cause shitty threads, which is something that almost always happens when US politicians are named.
      • africajam 10y ago
        You're right - lessons learnt ;)
    • dang 10y ago
      [flagged] on a post means users flagged it.
  • throwaway954683 10y ago
    Hacker News could do better by recognizing the substance of coarsely-articulated statements instead of engaging in pedantic tone policing.
    • dang 10y ago
      If you can point to a large internet community where people being jerks to each other results in substantive discourse, I'd love to see it. However, please don't routinely create many throwaway accounts here. We ban those. HN is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some continuous identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different site.