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Hello dang, I'm not aware of posting flamewar comments. Can you point me to some? Thanks.

• dang 5y ago
  We could start with "You Apple users are the wife whose husband keeps beating her" - that's obvious flamebait and name-calling, and quite against the site guidelines. If that isn't obvious to you, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and recalibrate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935035 was even worse. That's pure religious flamebait. We ban accounts that post like that, so please don't post like that.
  • hirundo 5y ago
    Thank you for responding dang, sincerely. "pure religious flamebait" seems to me to be a very hostile reading. I simply meant to add context to the parent's argument, which I agree with. I apologies for any offense given, but it was just a religious reference, not a sneer of any kind. I do apologize for "You Apple users", the intended lightness obviously did not come through, and it could have been more neutral. Perhaps my comparison of an abusive corporate relationship to an abusive personal one was overly terse, but I think that the metaphor adds useful perspective. I'll try to be more civil, sir. It wasn't my intention to be anything else. Apparently that involves avoiding the poignant as well as the malicious.
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