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On the one hand, thank you for taking the time to respond. On the other hand, I come here hoping for tech articles, and I'm pretty sure I only veer-off into id

On the one hand, thank you for taking the time to respond. On the other hand, I come here hoping for tech articles, and I'm pretty sure I only veer-off into ideological territory in response to other ideological comments/posts, which, for one reason or another, were not graced with a visit from the moderator. Let me take these one-by-one: Commenter called me a nutjob. That wasn't very "thoughtful or substantive," and was actually very flamewar-ey, yet he didn't get a dang visit. I responded politely, and here we are! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384784 Commenter politely suggested Marxist economics. I politely suggested Bible economics. Where's mmastrac's dang visit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381302 Not ideology. Factual case of the Rolling Stone getting caught, red handed, recycling someone else's (false) story without verifying it. Pointing out that Gell-Mann Amnesia has progressed to full-blown Gell-Mann Dementia isn't ideology or flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334684 The internet getting in the middle of a beef between total strangers. We have an entire legal tradition built upon this being a bad idea. Absolutely nothing "thoughful & substantive" in this tweet. If I'm curious about the bowels of windows terminal, I go to github, not twitter. If I was the first to flag it, shame on HN, not me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286305 Have you read that 2nd wikipedia page? This is also not an ideology post. It is a facts of life one. My dear country, like previous great civilizations of the western hemisphere, likes its human sacrifice rituals. This was not a pro or anti abortion post, since I lack a womb, and fence-sit on that particular subject. I was just pointing out that a diminution of one ritual will only be offset by the increase of another. The Florentine Codex has been beautifully translated into English. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243595 I am just an old man trying to drop a little hard-won wisdom in the hope that it will save some of the younger people from a few scars. But it's your board. If you don't want that kind of wisdom, I'll just have to take it elsewhere.

dang 4y ago
I hear that your intention is share your hard-won wisdom, but what is shared has to actually be received—otherwise no actual sharing has occurred. You have to complete the pass. For people to receive your wisdom, you need to go about sharing it in a different way. Arguing culture-war points is guaranteed only to excite anger and the opposite culture-war points in others. Zero sharing occurs when that happens. In any case, HN has rules about this sort of thing and we need you to follow the rules if you want to keep posting here. Above all, that means using the site for intellectual curiosity, not flamewar (ideological, political, cultural, or any other kind of flamewar). If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

dang 4y ago

I hear that your intention is share your hard-won wisdom, but what is shared has to actually be received—otherwise no actual sharing has occurred. You have to complete the pass. For people to receive your wisdom, you need to go about sharing it in a different way. Arguing culture-war points is guaranteed only to excite anger and the opposite culture-war points in others. Zero sharing occurs when that happens. In any case, HN has rules about this sort of thing and we need you to follow the rules if you want to keep posting here. Above all, that means using the site for intellectual curiosity, not flamewar (ideological, political, cultural, or any other kind of flamewar). If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.