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He would have been banned had he said this about jews, but it is OK to be racist towards muslims on HN.

• dang 5y ago
  It's definitely not ok. We've banned accounts for that in the past, and I warned that particular commenter as soon as someone pointed out the comment to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993147. We don't come close to seeing everything on HN. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... When an account is an established user and doesn't have a history of posting slurs to HN, we don't ban them immediately; we warn them first. When an account doesn't have an established history and is showing signs of using HN primarily for flamewar, we ban it. Accordingly, I've banned yours. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. None of the above varies by religion or any other identity group. It's common for people with strong affiliations with one group or another to claim that the mods are against them, but we aren't. This is simply how cognitive bias works on the internet. I've posted ad nauseum about this for years, if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20dislike%20notice&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... 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...