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Except fact is not provocative at all. They were objective with their answer and did not respond in a way that was derogatory nor mean spirited. They didn't eve

• dang 5y ago
  That's a strained interpretation both of the GP comment and of the HN guidelines. I'm pretty sure the bulk of the community here doesn't want to argue about whether the creation story of Genesis is "factual" or not. There's zero intellectual interest in that; it is, in fact, an absurd thing to argue about, unless you feel charged up about religion somehow. > fact is not provocative at all. There are infinitely many facts. They don't select themselves—humans do that—and often they do it in a highly provocative way. That's why "I'm just stating facts" is one of the classic troll tropes. For example, if one middle schooler points out the acne on another kid's face, that's both factual and provocative. I've used that analogy before. Recently I ran across an old comment by pg where he made a similar point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539403. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20infinitely%20many%20facts&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html