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IMO in this particular post, I was simply providing direct evidence refuting the claim that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China and not engaging in a nationalist

IMO in this particular post, I was simply providing direct evidence refuting the claim that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China and not engaging in a nationalistic flamewar. I can point out many examples of nationalistic, flamewar-instigating posts in this thread (such as the top comment) far more deserving (again, IMO) of reprimand than my little comment. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568989 Some flagged/dead but egregiously bad comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569931 Obviously you can’t comment on them all, but I feel slightly targeted for my relatively benign remarks when there are much lower hanging fruit. Regardless, I respect your judgement and the moderation that you do here, so i’ll do my best to refrain from directly responding to propagandistic lies and disinformation.

dang 6y ago
The issue in this case is that you created an account specifically to get involved in flamewars about China. That's an abuse of HN regardless of which side you're on. I don't think most of the comments you listed were egregious. The last three, sure - but at least one of those accounts is already banned, and in any case, if posts are flagged/dead then they're already marked as unacceptable to this community, meaning the immune system is functioning. I'm not sure what more you can ask than that, and it certainly doesn't justify making things worse.

dang 6y ago

The issue in this case is that you created an account specifically to get involved in flamewars about China. That's an abuse of HN regardless of which side you're on. I don't think most of the comments you listed were egregious. The last three, sure - but at least one of those accounts is already banned, and in any case, if posts are flagged/dead then they're already marked as unacceptable to this community, meaning the immune system is functioning. I'm not sure what more you can ask than that, and it certainly doesn't justify making things worse.