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skinkestek 6y ago
and - killing of innocent people, cops and others - large scale looting and burning of shops - often smaller stores owned by minorities AFAIK I'm even afraid BLM has gotten many to question the whole story.
marshmallow_12 6y ago
Have they accomplished anything else? Does that justify BLM as a political organisation? How transparent are they, and who runs it? Assumptions aren't always good. BLM is not new, and i've been disturbed by the attitudes of some supporters going back a few years.
- heterodoxxed 6y ago
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- dang 6y ago
  We've banned this account because it has primarily posted unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and ignored our requests to use the site as intended. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 6y ago
Please don't delete-edit your posts like that. It leaves the thread incoherent and isn't fair to the reader or to the commenters who replied. Edit: you did that on half a dozen different posts. That's basically vandalism and is not cool. Please don't do it again.
- heterodoxxed 6y ago
  Maybe HN should get in the 20th century and allow users to delete their comments.
  - dang 6y ago
    There are tradeoffs here. Of course we allow users to delete their comments, but once a comment has replies, deleting it deprives the replies of their context, which is not fair to the users who replied. We're trying to be fair to everybody, as well as to the community as a whole. If you delete-edit, you're doing an end run around that, which is not cool, and doing it on a whole bunch of posts is, as I said, vandalism, and something we'd ban an account for. While I have you: can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments, especially on inflammatory topics like political or ideological ones? It's not what HN is for, and it really damages what it is for. We're trying for curious conversation here, not smiting enemies. To end on something positive, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706409 is a comment you posted that manages to get that right, even though it's on a political/ideological topic. It gives substantive information and omits swipes—that's not easy, but it is simple—and it's the level conversations have to stay at if this place is not to destroy itself.
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and - killing of innocent people, cops and others - large scale looting and burning of shops - often smaller stores owned by minorities AFAIK I'm even afraid BLM has gotten many to question the whole story.

marshmallow_12 6y ago

Have they accomplished anything else? Does that justify BLM as a political organisation? How transparent are they, and who runs it? Assumptions aren't always good. BLM is not new, and i've been disturbed by the attitudes of some supporters going back a few years.

heterodoxxed 6y ago
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dang 6y ago
We've banned this account because it has primarily posted unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and ignored our requests to use the site as intended. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 6y ago

Please don't delete-edit your posts like that. It leaves the thread incoherent and isn't fair to the reader or to the commenters who replied. Edit: you did that on half a dozen different posts. That's basically vandalism and is not cool. Please don't do it again.

heterodoxxed 6y ago
Maybe HN should get in the 20th century and allow users to delete their comments.
- dang 6y ago
  There are tradeoffs here. Of course we allow users to delete their comments, but once a comment has replies, deleting it deprives the replies of their context, which is not fair to the users who replied. We're trying to be fair to everybody, as well as to the community as a whole. If you delete-edit, you're doing an end run around that, which is not cool, and doing it on a whole bunch of posts is, as I said, vandalism, and something we'd ban an account for. While I have you: can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments, especially on inflammatory topics like political or ideological ones? It's not what HN is for, and it really damages what it is for. We're trying for curious conversation here, not smiting enemies. To end on something positive, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706409 is a comment you posted that manages to get that right, even though it's on a political/ideological topic. It gives substantive information and omits swipes—that's not easy, but it is simple—and it's the level conversations have to stay at if this place is not to destroy itself.
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