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The kind of discussions that Hacker News is here for requires that commenters post civilly and substantively. Pure inflammation has a predictably destructive ef
by sctb 10y ago
The kind of discussions that Hacker News is here for requires that commenters post civilly and substantively. Pure inflammation has a predictably destructive effect on threads, so please don't post like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- therobot24 10y agoI don't see how posting a quote which is relevant to how people may be feeling about the change in healthcare is violating any of the comment guidelines.
- sctb 10y agoIt's unsubstantive partisan flamebait. That's off topic, uncivil, and introduces a classic flamewar topic with nothing to say.
- therobot24 10y agowell you're clearly passionate about the comment, and have an opinion about it's content however, it's a joke from a cartoon, of course it's over the top, but 'flamebait'...my opinion is different than yours here >> off topic, uncivil, and introduces a classic flamewar topic wut. A republican congress put legislation through the house which many news outlets (including the link source) are discussing who the proposed legislation will effect. Also i didn't realize that this subject was part of the classic flamewar topics like linux/mac/pc