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I do not notice that space at the beginning of the line act like a pre tag. Sorry for that. For the rest I do not think having posted anything more "flamebait"

by xte 8y ago

I do not notice that space at the beginning of the line act like a pre tag. Sorry for that. For the rest I do not think having posted anything more "flamebait" than the article itself and certainly not violating any site guideline. Few times I use all capitals to emphasis a single world more than simple '' or '_', veeeery rarely I use all caps for very few worlds as I do in the real world when I civilly and polity I raise my voice a little bit. I do not* find that nor impolite nor flamebait. Also to my European eye certain kind of news like "copyrighted tattoos" sound really a joke. I understand that the world is vary so something normal in a country may not be normal in another, and I do my best in general to respect others, as others respect me. I do not think HN is a diplomat discussion platforms like G7 o similar high-level meetings so I assume that in any country of the world, on a formally free speech platform, especially if it's named after Hacker cultures, one of the most free modern cultures we have seen in human history certain kind of relaxed expressions are ok. I do not buy the idea to be all silent, to ban all "strong" concepts, to say that anything is ok etc typical of certain dictatorial regimes. Hacker culture is free and remain free even on a proprietary platform with certainly not free communication model by it's nature. Also I do not see anything disturbing in remark how certain kind of use of "gamification" are not proper to a free culture nor can be considered positive or kind.

dang 8y ago
By HN standards, that comment was unsubstantive ideological flamebait. We have a lot of experience with what kinds of comment degrade discussion quality here, and that is one of the worst kinds. We ban accounts that post like that, so please just don't. On HN the idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
- xte 8y ago
  IMO sometimes a bit of "flame" is needed. Imaging a society that works only with kind interactions with anyone perfectly working "in the system" toward an excellent life is the real basic step on any dictatorship movement. And these are not my own ideas, perhaps the Candid by Voltaire depict perfectly well that scenario. Perhaps Victorian era prove it really well at society scale. However I know that I'm on a proprietary platform so not a democracy, not a really free shared place (regardless of efforts HN stuff can put in appear to be free and friendly) and than I can choose to comply or go. I consider this really sad for our society at a whole. So sorry, perhaps I'll keep commenting on in case I do not have to "flame" a bit, perhaps I'll stop commenting at all. I have no doubt that you work hard to keep HN informative and clean and I can imaging how hard it can be in the present time when anyone, being essentially powerless so without responsibilities, leave any brake apart and simply vent frustration in inflammatory text just "to fight". However it's a fight not toward a better world but toward windmills because the sole way of being really in harmony is being really free, no enlightened dictator with no matter how good it's intentions are, and even in that case sometimes not-so-clean confrontation will still happen. Have a nice day.

by xte 8y ago

dang 8y ago

By HN standards, that comment was unsubstantive ideological flamebait. We have a lot of experience with what kinds of comment degrade discussion quality here, and that is one of the worst kinds. We ban accounts that post like that, so please just don't. On HN the idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

xte 8y ago
IMO sometimes a bit of "flame" is needed. Imaging a society that works only with kind interactions with anyone perfectly working "in the system" toward an excellent life is the real basic step on any dictatorship movement. And these are not my own ideas, perhaps the Candid by Voltaire depict perfectly well that scenario. Perhaps Victorian era prove it really well at society scale. However I know that I'm on a proprietary platform so not a democracy, not a really free shared place (regardless of efforts HN stuff can put in appear to be free and friendly) and than I can choose to comply or go. I consider this really sad for our society at a whole. So sorry, perhaps I'll keep commenting on in case I do not have to "flame" a bit, perhaps I'll stop commenting at all. I have no doubt that you work hard to keep HN informative and clean and I can imaging how hard it can be in the present time when anyone, being essentially powerless so without responsibilities, leave any brake apart and simply vent frustration in inflammatory text just "to fight". However it's a fight not toward a better world but toward windmills because the sole way of being really in harmony is being really free, no enlightened dictator with no matter how good it's intentions are, and even in that case sometimes not-so-clean confrontation will still happen. Have a nice day.