3 ms·

Please don't post flamebait like this again. It's flamebait because it's both inflammatory and unsubstantive. It's like spending your last dollar to buy spoiled

• arminiusreturns 7y ago
  You are careening dangerously close into abuse of the rules just because a position is slightly controversial, and I think you should rethink your approach to this matter. I understand that it is likely my last setence that you are talking about, and while I certainly should have worded it a bit more carefully, to have a mod jump in and then call my point "unsubstantive" reeks of abuse of power. Before you begin to tell me just how unsubstantive it is, let me ask you one question; does the queen of the UK have or not have the power to dissolve the Canadian Parliament? If yes, Canada cannot be considered an independent nation, and therefor to call it a "vassal state" is appropriate even in the dryest academic sense. Of course it's a controversial opinion, but I'm not aware that the HN rules can be construed to say that you can't post controversial opinions. It is times like this when I would like to remind people that the rule change on HN was protested by many of us and we were completely ignored... and it was because we knew the mods would start to marginalize people who spoke ugly-truths and then got bandwagon-flagged. Not saying they do it on purpose or have a malicious intent, just that they established a structure that encourages this kind of abuse. I protest.
  • sctb 7y ago
    > Terrorism, children, drugs, or sex; all excuses used for attacking individual liberty. You've provided no basis for this claim. > Let's get real here, stuff like this is about control, not about security, and certainly Nota about morality... You've provided no basis for this claim. > That's just how politicians package it so the people swallow the poison pill. I take this as an expression rather than a claim, but still it doesn't teach us anything. You haven't tied your point about sovereignty to the topic of discussion, and when commenters don't do that we get taken off into generic tangents. This is not about holding controversial opinions. It's about failing to meet the standards of discourse here, and meeting them is a rather mechanical thing which all commenters are capable of. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    • arminiusreturns 7y ago
      I will hence be using the logic you have applied to me to any comments I see, because there are some obvious double standards here.