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I apologise, you're right, I was having a bad day. I'm surprised though, on a post with two downvotes?

• dang 7y ago
  I'm afraid I don't understand your question.
  • make3 7y ago
    that you would threaten to ban for something that got two downvotes is surprising to me
    • dang 7y ago
      Ah, I see. Well, moderation is orthogonal to comment voting. If a user is breaking the guidelines, it doesn't matter how many points the comment has. It's a bit like a constitutional democracy: the constitution part trumps the voting part. When we post something like "if you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you," that's because the account has a pattern of posting unsubstantive comments or otherwise breaking the site guidelines. It's technically a reply to one comment, because we have to hang it somewhere, but it's really a response to a pattern. That said, it's been a while since we had to warn you and your recent history looks ok other than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126286, so I can see why my comment came as a surprise. But it would be good if you'd omit the really low-information comments and up the signal/noise ratio a bit.