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This kind of ideological flamebait (regardless of its particular ideology) doesn't belong on Hacker News. Please don't post like this here. https://news.ycombi
by sctb 10y ago
This kind of ideological flamebait (regardless of its particular ideology) doesn't belong on Hacker News. Please don't post like this here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- p_zakharov 10y agoI find it difficult to adhere to the meaning of guidelines like this, because I don't know exactly what they intend. For example, I would say what I did in a face-to-face conversation, and I don't think I'm being gratuitously negative.
- Blahah 10y agoWhat your comment (and followup) shows is that you think some other people's behaviour makes them deserve HIV. That's an utterly intolerable position, and especially so in this community. Nobody deserves HIV.
- p_zakharov 10y agoWhy is it intolerable? I think many who have HIV now deserved it because of their licentious behavior.
- p_zakharov 10y agoWhat about the degenerate subculture of "bug chasers"? Aren't they literally asking for it?
- sctb 10y agoWe've banned this account.
- sctb 10y agoThis case is well covered by the guideline that says: > Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
- p_zakharov 10y agoI haven't obviously broken that rule. Is it even a classic flame war topic? I've seen more flame wars about vim vs. emacs than I have about this issue, at least how I framed it.