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The whole story is flamebait. If you don't want it here you should have removed the story.
by aspnet_dev 6y ago
The whole story is flamebait. If you don't want it here you should have removed the story.
- dang 6y agoVirtually every story is flamebait to somebody, so 'why bother' arguments that justify going straight to hell can't be valid. How HN works is that commenters need to resist provocation and focus on substantive, thoughtful discussion no matter how divisive the topic is. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This is something we're working on learning to do as a community. Most commenters in this thread are demonstrating that it is possible. Accounts that fuck with that process by casually setting fires or stoking them are particularly harmful, so please don't do that here. In terms of whether an article is on topic, the criterion is not "might someone take it as flamebait", but "is it intellectually interesting and substantive enough to support thoughtful discussion". More explanation about that if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
- aspnet_dev 6y agoThis is flamebait for everyone and anyone with a lick of commonsense would know that. Also it is interesting that you've gone after me not the guy that was blatently calling me racist. But there you go. Go fuck yourself.