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Your post history indicates that you're not only Russian [1][2], but that you've also been dismissive of the "Russia narrative" since details first surfaced [3]

by meritt 9y ago

Your post history indicates that you're not only Russian [1][2], but that you've also been dismissive of the "Russia narrative" since details first surfaced [3][4], and you have a very vibrant history of being vehemently anti-Clinton [5]. You're free to believe whatever you want, but please drop charade. You have a very obvious agenda and you're doing a disservice to the rest of HN with your bullshit implication that you "stopped buying the Russia narrative". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797023 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793971 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973995 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200173 [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+rdtsc+clinton https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

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marknutter 9y ago
Anyone else think it's particularly gross when people voyeuristically root through people's comments history to try to discredit them?
- sosborn 9y ago
  Not really.
- zaroth 9y ago
  Yes, definitely. I flagged the comment for that reason. You can disagree with the original comment. You can downvote the initial comment. You can flag the initial comment. Hell, you could even engage and reply to the initial comment. But I don't want to see the personal attack.
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asnfaiosnfsa 9y ago
Gimme a break, just because someone is from Russia doesn't mean they should be immediately dismissed. In fact, one might say that their opinion might even be valuable if we weren't in the midst of a Red Scare. Loyalty to the Obama-Clinton block is what got us into this mess. Neither it nor Trumpism is going to get us out.
dang 9y ago
Ai yai yai, this sort of personal attack, crossing even into national smear, is totally out of line on HN and is easily a bannable offense. I won't ban you because you haven't made a habit of this, but if you do it again we will. I haven't been so shocked by something a HN user has done in a while. In the meantime please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post only civil, substantive comments from now on.
- meritt 9y ago
  I'm disappointed to see that you're standing up for posting extremely biased political misinformation on HN and shutting down the one person attempting to provide source, context, and framing of the user's intent. Please just go ahead and ban me. This is completely ridiculous and you're part of the goddamn problem.
  - rdtsc 9y ago
    > I'm disappointed to see that you're standing up for posting extremely biased political misinformation on HN and shutting down the one person attempting to provide source, What was your source? My comment history? You didn't even dig enough to see that I am not Russian. So you're throwing allegations around. Yes I speak Russian and a few other languages and I lived in the ex-Soviet Union. Not sure you had to go back 340 days to see that. I mention that about every week here. Why throw a fit that everyone else is not supporting your political candidate and doesn't share your opinions. Why not provide a counter argument which leads to discussion. You can see I responded to some comments which didn't start with "let's dig in your history". Sure, it's a bit flattering but as I mentioned in another comment, also kinda creepy.
rdtsc 9y ago
Ah yes. Digging through the post history. Oh wow you found my post from 340 ago. I am kind of flattered, but also kind of creeped out, also saddened a tiny bit. Mostly because you see shills and spies hiding in the bushes. No I am not Russian, but yes I speak Russian. There is a puzzle for ya, dig deeper friend. I also speak 3 other languages (not including computer languages), not sure if that' s a good hint or not. You can also maybe find exactly where I live. Should I put a chair against my bedroom door, just in case, ... > of being vehemently anti-Clinton [5]. Oh we have to like Clinton here on Hacker News, sorry didn't know about that. > but that you've also been dismissive of the "Russia narrative" It smelled bad from the very beginning and I think the more time passes the more it gets validated. Well, thanks for finding those links, now I can say "yap I was right". Comey's advice not to prosecute bit being extremely fishy, and that the whole Russia narrative was a mostly a PR campaign. Do I get armchair HN political analyst brownie points? > You have a very obvious agenda and you're doing a disservice to the rest of HN with your bullshit implication that you "stopped buying the Russia narrative". What's the agenda? Yeah I stopped buying the Russia narrative after I saw that Crowdstrike's report was the only evidence for it. I didn't just stopped buying today, I stopped buying since it came up. Yet every time I see news with grand promises I think "ah well maybe this is it, let's see what's there" and there nothing.

by meritt 9y ago

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marknutter 9y ago

Anyone else think it's particularly gross when people voyeuristically root through people's comments history to try to discredit them?

sosborn 9y ago
Not really.
zaroth 9y ago
Yes, definitely. I flagged the comment for that reason. You can disagree with the original comment. You can downvote the initial comment. You can flag the initial comment. Hell, you could even engage and reply to the initial comment. But I don't want to see the personal attack.
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asnfaiosnfsa 9y ago

Gimme a break, just because someone is from Russia doesn't mean they should be immediately dismissed. In fact, one might say that their opinion might even be valuable if we weren't in the midst of a Red Scare. Loyalty to the Obama-Clinton block is what got us into this mess. Neither it nor Trumpism is going to get us out.

dang 9y ago

Ai yai yai, this sort of personal attack, crossing even into national smear, is totally out of line on HN and is easily a bannable offense. I won't ban you because you haven't made a habit of this, but if you do it again we will. I haven't been so shocked by something a HN user has done in a while. In the meantime please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post only civil, substantive comments from now on.

meritt 9y ago
I'm disappointed to see that you're standing up for posting extremely biased political misinformation on HN and shutting down the one person attempting to provide source, context, and framing of the user's intent. Please just go ahead and ban me. This is completely ridiculous and you're part of the goddamn problem.
- rdtsc 9y ago
  > I'm disappointed to see that you're standing up for posting extremely biased political misinformation on HN and shutting down the one person attempting to provide source, What was your source? My comment history? You didn't even dig enough to see that I am not Russian. So you're throwing allegations around. Yes I speak Russian and a few other languages and I lived in the ex-Soviet Union. Not sure you had to go back 340 days to see that. I mention that about every week here. Why throw a fit that everyone else is not supporting your political candidate and doesn't share your opinions. Why not provide a counter argument which leads to discussion. You can see I responded to some comments which didn't start with "let's dig in your history". Sure, it's a bit flattering but as I mentioned in another comment, also kinda creepy.

rdtsc 9y ago

Ah yes. Digging through the post history. Oh wow you found my post from 340 ago. I am kind of flattered, but also kind of creeped out, also saddened a tiny bit. Mostly because you see shills and spies hiding in the bushes. No I am not Russian, but yes I speak Russian. There is a puzzle for ya, dig deeper friend. I also speak 3 other languages (not including computer languages), not sure if that' s a good hint or not. You can also maybe find exactly where I live. Should I put a chair against my bedroom door, just in case, ... > of being vehemently anti-Clinton [5]. Oh we have to like Clinton here on Hacker News, sorry didn't know about that. > but that you've also been dismissive of the "Russia narrative" It smelled bad from the very beginning and I think the more time passes the more it gets validated. Well, thanks for finding those links, now I can say "yap I was right". Comey's advice not to prosecute bit being extremely fishy, and that the whole Russia narrative was a mostly a PR campaign. Do I get armchair HN political analyst brownie points? > You have a very obvious agenda and you're doing a disservice to the rest of HN with your bullshit implication that you "stopped buying the Russia narrative". What's the agenda? Yeah I stopped buying the Russia narrative after I saw that Crowdstrike's report was the only evidence for it. I didn't just stopped buying today, I stopped buying since it came up. Yet every time I see news with grand promises I think "ah well maybe this is it, let's see what's there" and there nothing.