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Frankly I think you replied to the wrong comment here, probably because you disagree with my views and not the other commenters' views. I did not turn the conve

Frankly I think you replied to the wrong comment here, probably because you disagree with my views and not the other commenters' views. I did not turn the conversation primarily to interpreting Biden's remarks. That was tangential to my original on-topic (but downvoted and flagged because wrongthink) comment. I am no doubt guilty of responding with undue incredulity to some hard-to-understand claims in the ensuing off-topic thread. But if you feel that the thread has descended into flamewar, you should look at who turned the conversation to flamewar topics, and it was not me. How about in the future I endeavor not to continue flamewar topics, and you endeavor not to blame the whole thread on the first non-leftist commenter in the thread, eh? Seems fair.

dang 6y ago
You started the flamewar upthread. It always feels like the mods are against you. I don't even know what your views are—that's not the filter through which I read comments like this. There's too much quantity to work through and it's not energy-efficient to do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- unanswered 6y ago
  I would appreciate if you could indicate which comment you feel started the flamewar. I'm sure this is where we disagree. And it's rather naive to believe you don't read all comments through the filter of your own worldview.
  - dang 6y ago
    I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290015 Yes, everyone reads everything through the filter of their own worldview. That's a different sense of 'filter'. What I mean is that I'm looking for markers of guidelines breakage. Is it possible to scan comments primarily for that? Sure it is, especially if one has done it many thousands of times. It's common for people to reach for the moderator's 'worldview' as an explanation for why they got moderated, but usually the explanation is far simpler and easier to see. In this case you broke the site guidelines by taking the the thread into ideological battle. Please don't.

dang 6y ago

You started the flamewar upthread. It always feels like the mods are against you. I don't even know what your views are—that's not the filter through which I read comments like this. There's too much quantity to work through and it's not energy-efficient to do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

unanswered 6y ago
I would appreciate if you could indicate which comment you feel started the flamewar. I'm sure this is where we disagree. And it's rather naive to believe you don't read all comments through the filter of your own worldview.
- dang 6y ago
  I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290015 Yes, everyone reads everything through the filter of their own worldview. That's a different sense of 'filter'. What I mean is that I'm looking for markers of guidelines breakage. Is it possible to scan comments primarily for that? Sure it is, especially if one has done it many thousands of times. It's common for people to reach for the moderator's 'worldview' as an explanation for why they got moderated, but usually the explanation is far simpler and easier to see. In this case you broke the site guidelines by taking the the thread into ideological battle. Please don't.