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who downvotes my comment thinks it is okay to suppress women, criminalize homosexuality, cause famines in Yemen, finance global terrorism or fillet journalists.
by 74d-fe6-2c6 6y ago
who downvotes my comment thinks it is okay to suppress women, criminalize homosexuality, cause famines in Yemen, finance global terrorism or fillet journalists.
I take those downvotes with pride :)
- dash2 6y agoI think it's more likely that people downvote your comment because it adds nothing but heat to the discussion.
- dang 6y agoPlease stop posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments to HN. We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 74d-fe6-2c6 6y agoI get your point and understand where it's coming from. But I'd rather read more honest flamebait on HN than those obsessivly sterile technocratic sohpisms for the sake of enabling pseudo-objective debates. A lot of people here are all about constructing smart arguments which only superficially add to a deeper understanding but actually handicap it.
- dang 6y agoTwo problems with this argument: (1) it ignores the externalities: flamebait creates flamewars, which destroy the site. No doubt house fires can be exciting to watch and even interesting in a certain way, but we still have to put them out and it's still a crime to set them; (2) one type of bad comment doesn't justify a second type of bad comment—you should post good comments instead. The answer to sophisms is not internet dreck.
- 74d-fe6-2c6 6y agodang, you're doing a great job. sorry for taking up your time.