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You're really proving him wrong by calling that a "slur"... Seems very odd to me that a mod would find it worth his time to tsk tsk at someone making a commonl

You're really proving him wrong by calling that a "slur"... Seems very odd to me that a mod would find it worth his time to tsk tsk at someone making a commonly held observation about the Bay Area but is seemingly fine with the elitist opinions that are all over HN about other parts of the country

dang 9y ago
Actually it's really simple. You can't post national or ethnic or regional slurs like that and we tell people so whenever we see them doing it. The issue isn't defending the Bay Area, it's defending HN against the usual internet poisons. > seemingly fine with That's a non sequitur. A comment going unchided doesn't mean moderators are ok with it—the likeliest reason is that we didn't see it. Relative to what gets posted here, the set of comments we see has measure zero.
- nailer 9y ago
  Calling the bay area a cultureless void - which it is - isn't a 'slur' and comparing this statement to an ethnic slur is absurd and warrants an apology. If you weren't dang it would seem like you're being deliberately argumentative. Instead I'll suggest you're being overzealous in this case.
  - dang 9y ago
    Would you please stop? What you posted was obviously a swipe. That sort of contentless putdown leads to flamewars that destroy this community. There was a nasty spat about a different region last night. It's all generic, and you just can't post like that here.