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I accept your decision, my apologies - but could you please let me know in some more detail why this was flagged so that I can get a chance to understand and co

I accept your decision, my apologies - but could you please let me know in some more detail why this was flagged so that I can get a chance to understand and correct my mistake(s)? Because I can only conclude „don’t try to discuss side effects of capitalism” right now. Is there a heated debate I’m unaware of, that my comment might have been attributed to? What is the flamewar bit? I did not read the other threads.

dang 6y ago
It has to do with the thread going in generic ideological directions [1]. Generic discussion is predictable [2] and, in the case of divisive topics like ideology, gets increasingly nasty as well, as the partisans of each side show up to fight each other in the same ways that they always fight each other. All this is the enemy of curious conversation, which is what this site is for [3], and which has to be unpredictable in order to be interesting. If it helps at all, we moderate the opposite side the same way (an example I've used sometimes is [4]). If you look at the links below and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be interested to know what it is. I'm afraid it's a bit of a slog to scroll back to the interesting explanations, though, since there's a lot of routine moderation mixed in there as well—but then it can sometimes be helpful to see past cases also. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generic%20ideolog&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generic%20discussion&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20taxation%20theft&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

dang 6y ago

It has to do with the thread going in generic ideological directions [1]. Generic discussion is predictable [2] and, in the case of divisive topics like ideology, gets increasingly nasty as well, as the partisans of each side show up to fight each other in the same ways that they always fight each other. All this is the enemy of curious conversation, which is what this site is for [3], and which has to be unpredictable in order to be interesting. If it helps at all, we moderate the opposite side the same way (an example I've used sometimes is [4]). If you look at the links below and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be interested to know what it is. I'm afraid it's a bit of a slog to scroll back to the interesting explanations, though, since there's a lot of routine moderation mixed in there as well—but then it can sometimes be helpful to see past cases also. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generic%20ideolog&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generic%20discussion&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20taxation%20theft&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...